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

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper presenting an econometric model for economic forecasting of population, labour force, educational levels and employment in developing countries, as applied to Ecuador - describes the labour market models use in making projections of labour supply, labour demand,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working papers, conference papers on human resources planning and employment problems in Asian developing countries - describes the ARTEP approach to manpower planning; includes a case study giving projections of employment in the formal sector in Sarawak, East Malaysia to the...

Argues that strategies encouraging surplus extraction from agriculture, combined with stalled industrialisation constitute the root causes of persistent rural poverty. Suggests that an agriculture-first strategy is necessary not only for rural poverty alleviation, but also for successful...