Identifies to what extent, and in which way external shocks and the need for a different development pattern has affected economic growth in for Eastern European countries.

ILO pub. Working paper on the effects of multinational enterprise on employment in Brazil - provides historical background to foreign investment in brazil, and studies the role of multinational enterprise in industrial structure and industrialization, productivity, capital intensiveness, wages,...

Examines privatization of the sugar plantations and sugar processing industry in the Caribbean region. Provides a detailed account of the current state of the Caribbean sugar industry. Examines the modalities and activities of the privatization process in the six countries. Identifies the forces...

Provides information on the situation in Barbados and Jamaica as it relates to employment, working conditions and labour relations in offshore data service enterprises, against the background of the ILO's Tripartite Declaration of Principles concerning Multinational Enterprises and Social Policy.

Describes the experiences, strategies adopted and problems encountered with regard to reforms in the Colombian port of Buenaventura.

Based on the Annual Survey of Industries two-digit level data for the years 1973-74 and 1993-1994, discusses the changing pattern of labour productivity, labour costs and total factor productivity.