ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, capital goods, technology, industrial development, trends, 1955-1978, Colombia - supply and demand, choice of product, Innovation, technology transfer, obstacles, tariff policy, research policy. Bibliography, diagram, statistical tables.

Presents data from a methods test survey which shows higher rates of female labour force participation than reported by official surveys.

Provides guidelines for national project managers and local researchers carrying out surveys under national projects. Includes an annotated specimen questionnaire.

Working paper on sex discrimination, the economic role and agricultural employment of rural women as plantation worker in Malawi. Examines labour force participation of women workers as seasonal workers or in part-time employment, unpaid work of married women and homemakers on tea and tobacco...

Considers various policy options, such as legislation, standard setting, the polluter pays principle and debt-for-nature swaps, in addition to economic instruments.

Reviews employment trends in the plantation sector from the early 1970s to the late 1980s.