Working paper on relationships between industrialization, employment, basic needs and social welfare programmes in Sri Lanka. Identifies target groups among the poverty stricken, partic. agricultural workers, and peasant farmers. Examines labour force participation. Presents an evaluation of Sri...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, comparison of employment policies for employment creation in Western Europe and the USA - covers job creation measures, target groups, financing, and the relationships between job creation and economic policy and social policies (esp. Social security); looks at...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on migration in and from Swaziland - presents the results of 1976-77 surveys of internal migration, emigration and attitudes and behaviour of migrant workers in South Africa R, etc., makes economic policy and social policy recommendations, and forms part of a WEP...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the social policy and economic policy implications of migration for employment, comprising a case study of labour administration bureaucracy in Lesotho as it affects emigrant workers - includes historical background, conclusions and recommendations, and...

ILO pub. Article on a basic needs approach to economic and social development in Nigeria - examines existing social policies with regard to basic needs, and proposes the use of a strategy that would include foreign exchange controls, increased public expenditure in rural areas, income...

ILO pub. Article on child care services for children of men and woman workers - examines the social policy attitudes and the different institutional frameworks of child care in developed countries and developing countries, discusses the need for a well-conceived child care policy, and includes...

Examines the evolution of the approach of the ILO to the problem of poverty between 1919 and 1995.