Comprises six papers which explore the labour and social aspects of economic integration in North and South America during the 1990s. Reviews the activities of Mercosur in the labour and social security areas and investigates the content and impact of the North American Agreement on Labour...

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...

This working paper provides an initial overview and analysis of efforts in poverty reduction to date. It has been written in response to requests for more information about existing ILO poverty-focussed work, raised at the Decent Work and Poverty Reduction Workshop in Turin, July 2002,and in...

Discusses 'decent work' as a concept and a poverty reduction strategy.

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...

The growing literature on social protection in Africa has tended to focus on conceptual debates, policy design issues and impact evaluations. To date, there has been relatively little systematic analysis of the ways in which politics and political economy shape policy. This paper outlines a...