We estimate changes in the productivity of schooling for six East Asian countries. Our productivity measure is based on changes in the relative price of schooling. A rising price of schooling relative to other labor-intensive service sectors should indicate declining relative schooling...

Analyzes the banana industry crisis and its labour related effects. Highlights the continuing importance of the banana industry to the region.

Explores the campaign leading to the signing in 2001 of an international framework agreement (IFA) between the global banana enterprise Chiquita and the Latin American Coordination of Banana Workers Unions (COLSIBA). Shows how the banana workers unions employed innovative tactics of regional...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the agrarian structure and rural area poverty in Honduras - describes role of the banana plantations in the evolution of the agricultural sector; examines trends in farm size, land tenure, land utilization, crop yields, agricultural employment on large and small...

En Guadeloupe et en Martinique, la production bananière doit relever le défi de mieux conjuguer performances économiques et environnementales. Les pratiques intensives et la monoculture ont en effet eu pour conséquence le développement parasitaire, une baisse de la fertilité des sols et...

La production de bananes dans les Antilles est de manière croissante interpellée (insularité, protection de la biodiversité, ressources en eau, multifonctionnalité de l'agriculture, crise du chlordécone) dans sa capacité à réduire l'utilisation de produits phytopharmaceutiques. En...