Suggests reforming the IMF's approach on its lending strategies to low and middle income countries, better crisis intervention and debt workout mechanisms as well as transforming the IMF into a more multilateral institution.

Reviews the key economic characteristics of the globalization process and examines its impact on employment, poverty, inequality, global insecurity, child labour, gender issues and migration. Explores national and international policy responses, highlighting the importance of trade negotiations...

Provides a conceptual and normative framework for developing an appropriate policy response to some of the problems posed by the informal economy.

Examines employment trends in the period 1987-1998, with particular reference to the income dimension associated with changed employment structures.