Provides guidance on the protection of workers in small-scale surface (open-pit) mines from safety and health hazards.

Working paper on the working conditions of rural women workers, especially young workers, in the export oriented microelectronics electronics industry in South East Asia. Highlights occupational disease hazards associated with production processes, the need for a cheap labour supply, and the...

ILO pub. Working paper on collective agreements relating to technological change, partic. The introduction of computerization, in banking and insurance - comments on labour legislation; analyses trade union attitudes towards employment security, working conditions, redundancy, reinstatement,...

Excess credit along with bad management in the banking industry may bring about default likely to result in a systemic risk. The turmoil experienced by financial markets since mid 2007 stems from the highly speculative behaviour of second rank banks in a context of liberalized finance....

Bankers suffer a risk of non repayment of their credits to firms. This risk can be reduced during the two phases of the credit : at the time of the credit granting by a risk of failure analysis and the design of incentive contracts, and during its life, by an active monitoring of the credit.