Presents eight case studies of the indirect effects of multinationals on employment in six host countries. Includes a sample set of questionnaires addressed to local production units, sub-contractors and multinational subsidiaries contacted in the Brazilian study.

Working paper of the manpower needs generated by labour intensive fruit and vegetable agricultural production for export, and the agricultural employment of rural women under a traditional sharecropping system in the Oulja region of Morocco. Analyses the impact of economic development on the...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper suggesting labour shortage among peasant farmers as a factor explaining rural area poverty and low productivity in Malawi - based on a sample survey in the Lilongwe land development programme, examines land utilization, agricultural credit, agricultural production,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the economic role of rural women and fuelwood needs in three ecologycally distinct rural communitys in Peru - describes the research method; examines the rural area energy issue and women's household activities; analyses the sexual division of labour, waste of...

Working paper on nonfarm employment of peasant farmers and skilled workers in Western Guatemala. Examines the rural economy and organisation of agricultural marketing. On the basis of a sample survey of 2544 households in 143 rural communitys carried out from 1976-1978, considers the...

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper on basic needs development planning in Latin America - outlines economic policy approaches, incl. The institutional framework, and public expenditure; examines the availability of social services for low income groups; calls for popular participation and...