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This Selected Issues paper for Algeria analyzes the potential economic impact of Algeria’s Association Agreement with the European Union (AAEU). The paper lays out the major elements of Algeria’s AAEU and makes a comparison with other AAEUs. It discusses the potential economic...
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This Selected Issues paper reviews the extent to which growth in Ethiopia has translated into higher living standards. A key feature of the economic strategy has been an explicit commitment to poverty reduction and structural transformation. This is underpinned by the vision of a...
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This Selected Issues paper on Bangladesh underlies the export performance of readymade garment industry and inflation dynamics. Bangladesh has demonstrated that it is highly competitive in the world’s major garment markets. Inflation inertia, monetary factors, and exchange rate...
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Examines the experience of Thailand and its neighbouring countries on bilateral employment agreements. It first gives a …
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and regional trends of unemployment and vulnerable employment between 2007 and 2009, drawing on the published available … clothing industry, which has been negatively impacted upon by the global downturn, focusing on Cambodia and Mauritius. The … crisis, in order to promote more productive employment and decent work opportunities equally for women and men. …
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promote equality between men and women in Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines, as well as an inventory of global good … how to improve equitable employment opportunities, remuneration, and treatment for women and men at work to support the … development of decent work and gender equality good practices in Cambodia, Kazakhstan, and the Philippines. The report is part of …
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Case study prepared to analyse trends in regions with the highest concentration of tobacco employment in selected … countries. Focuses on trends in tobacco production, consumption, and trade; the numbers of workers in the different sub … the nature of employment. …
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Provides an overview of the construction industry in South Africa and examines collective bargaining arrangements and other institutions which affect organizing, wages and working conditions for informal sector workers. Profiles the activities of four unions and two associations of building...
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Using data from the Georgia Labour Force Survey for 1998 and 1999, provides a profile of informal employment in the …
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During the 1970s and early 1980s the ILO carried out a number of studies on the informal sector in large urban centres of developing countries, including Accra, Lome, Yaounde, Dakar and Kaolack. These studies failed to elaborate on the nature and extent of the relationship between the informal...
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