This study provides a comprehensive review of the urban informal sector economic activities in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, their contributions to employment and its potential for expansion. In analysing the results of a survey conducted in 1977 on 29 occupational categories within six economic...

Develops and illustrates the conceptual and empirical knowledge on growth, employment and investment in Moldova, emphasizing the empirical relationships between these variables and discussing some policy implications, with particular regard to employment growth. Covers mainly the period from...

Based on a survey of 9,000 formal sector workers undertaken in 1990. Looks at the relationship between wage levels and educational levels (finding high returns to education), and wage levels and occupation.

Based on interviews with officers and workers in four banks and four insurance companies in each country.

Discusses how to use franchising as a means of integrating the informal sector into mainstream economic life.

Working paper on the application of the bachue demo-economic model (demographic model) relating to basic needs in the Philippines.

Presents the results of an interview survey carried out among over 2000 young people and 90 enterprises in Jakarta, Central Java, and Nusa Tenggara Timur. Covers education and training received, job aspirations and employment searching, working conditions and mobility, and perceptions of gender...