Covers trend from 1990 to 1998.

Presents trends and estimates of the poor, near poor and middle class working population in developing Asia and the Pacific.

Discusses the effects of two recent economic crises, 1998-1999 and 2008-2009, on gender and racial inequalities in Brazil. Argues that the effects of these crises on qualitative aspects of employment such as wages and employment status have been unequally felt by women and blacks in Brazilian...

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

Covers data from 1990 to 1997.

Based on the ILO's Bulgarian Labour Flexibility Survey. Data covers the period 1989 to 1992.

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, economic analysis of the impact of economic policy responses to external debt on employment and wages in Brazil and Chile - discusses trends in minimum wages, unemployment and underemployment; reviews the economic implications and social implications of reduced...