Covers trend from 1990 to 1998.

Reviews the liberalization experience of Bolivia and Chile during the 1990s and argues that the IMF structural reform policy package had serious shortcomings.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on agricultural employment in Latin America - covers rural population trends, rural migration, occupational structure, farm size, landlessness, wage rates, unemployment, wages, incl. Family workers, labour contracts, household income, and rural area poverty....

Includes a review of urbanization trends since the 1960s.

Analyses the economic, social and labour market situation in Panama and proposes policies to promote decent work.