Looks at the fundamental importance of employment for development.

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...

Working paper comprising a case study on the economic role of low income rural women, especially as women workers employed in subsistence farming in Andra Pradesh, India. Covers labour force participation, sexual division of labour, sex discrimination in land tenure and occupational structure,...

Covers trend from 1990 to 1998.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper evaluating a survey of poverty and employment trends in 5 villages in Bihar, India from 1971 to 1981 - discusses population dynamics, occupational status, land tenure, wages, etc.; proposes an economic model for the correlation of income distribution and food...

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