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- Productivity, Decent Employment And Poverty: Conceptual And Practical Issues Related To Small Enterprises
- This paper explores the relationship between labour productivity, employment and poverty. It is organized around a question, a concern and a challenge. The question is: if small enterprises are less productive than large enterprises which they are, why are they not driven from the market through competition, so that the...
- White papers 2005-03-04
- Sexual Harassment at Work - Sri Lanka Study With Focus on the Plantation Sector
- Based on the findings of the study presented in this paper, it is evident that all forms of sexual harassment are prevalent on the estates. The coercive labour control mechanisms together with the traditional culture of disadvantaged-discriminated status and insecure employment conditions contribute to further victimize the workers, of whom...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Private Equity and Capitalisation of SMMEs in South Africa: Quo Vadis?
- This paper on microinsurance in South Africa was completed thanks to the generous funding of the Dutch Government as part of the Dutch Partnership Program with the International Labour Organization ILO. This paper forms part of a multi-country project that seeks to understand the risks that low-income entrepreneurs face, their...
- White papers 2003-02-21
- Developing Commercial Markets For Business Development Services
- From fair trade marketing to rental of cell phones, from entrepreneurship training to the publication of trade magazines, "Business Development Services" BDS refers to the wide range of services used by entrepreneurs to help them operate efficiently and grow their businesses with the broader purpose of contributing to economic growth,...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Employment-Intensive Infrastructure Programmes: Labour Policies and Practices
- Labour-based approaches to infrastructure works have become an important element of job creation strategies in many low-wage developing countries with an oversupply of underemployed labour. Well-managed labour-based methods have proven to be a viable and cost-effective alternative to equipment-based methods because they produce good quality results, allow cost savings -...
- White papers 2005-04-26
- Self-Regulation in the Workplace: Codes of Conduct, Social Labeling and Socially Responsible Investment
- This paper is based on a paper prepared in 1998 entitled "Overview of global developments and Office activities concerning codes of conduct, social labelling and other private sector initiatives addressing labour issues." This paper was prepared for the 273rd Session of the ILO's Governing Body Working Party on the Social...
- White papers 2001-10-22
- The Social Dimension of Regional Integration in ECOWAS
- This paper describes the intend, through an examination of Economic Community of West African States ECOWAS, to assess the obstacles and possibilities of incorporating social concerns relating to labour and employment into regional policies and institutions, and what opportunities there are in this area for improvement as well as greater...
- White papers 2004-12-01
- The Potential Role of the UN Guidelines and the New ILO Recommendation on the Promotion of Cooperatives
- This paper discusses the very fact that the UN and the International Labour Organization, ILO, have both deliberated on the topic of cooperative development, highlights cooperatives' continued relevance in today's globalized economy and their continued importance in contributing towards and sustainable socio-economic development. The two international instruments, which recognize the...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- Competency-Based Human Resources Management
- The application of the competencies approach comprises the traditional areas of human talent management at the organization: selection, remuneration, training, assessment and promotion. Several experiences of applications of standardized competency systems have taken place in England, Ireland, Scotland and Australia. These experiences are framed within national systems of training and...
- White papers 2004-12-28
- Current Practices in Labour Market Information Systems Development for Human Resources Development Planning in Developed, Developing and Transition Economies
- This paper presents the current state of labor market data collection, analysis and dissemination practices in a selected sample of developed, transition and developing countries with a view to identifying what could be termed good practices in the development of labor market information systems LMIS and the use of labor...
- White papers 2003-06-12
- The Impact of the 2001-2002 Crisis on the Hotel and Tourism Industry
- The hotel and tourism industry has been suffering particularly from the combined effects of a general economic downturn that began to show itself early in 2001 and the shock wave from the events on September 11th of the same year. The general economic downturn had already started to reduce the...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Employment Impact Of Mergers And Acquisitions In The Banking And Financial Services Sector
- Proponents of financial sector consolidation argue that institutions need size to spread growing information technology and processing costs over larger revenue bases. Another key factor is the need for greater market capitalization, with governments and financial sector regulators accepting financial operators' arguments that greater size is crucial to cost-cutting and...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Alliances and Solidarity to Promote Women Workers' Rights
- Trade unions are increasingly reaching out beyond the traditional workplace, whether at enterprise or industry level. They are connecting with other elements of civil society and building alliances and partnerships at community, national, regional, international and global levels. The broader social agenda of the labor movement could be advanced only...
- White papers 2001-01-01
- Organizing the unorganized:informal economy and other unprotected workers
- Today the reality of a restructured and fragmented economy and the individualization of employment relationships make trade union organizing more difficult. Organizing does not mean just recruiting new members in the workplace and providing them with services. Organizing the informal sector should be a priority for unions in view of...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- The issues and guidelines for gender equality bargaining
- Gender equality bargaining can be a powerful mechanism through which unions can either reinforce existing rights under legislation or previous collective agreements through devising practical methods of implementation, or extend workplace rights on issues, which have traditionally, been ignored. Unions may strategically choose which issues they will present for negotiations....
- White papers 2001-10-01
- Promoting gender equality through collective bargaining
- We cannot rely on legislation to achieve and protect equality issues. Collective bargaining is a much more effective mechanism for ensuring that these rights exist. Although there have been major achievements made in equality issues in the past, downsizing and reorganization are taking a toll, impacting on the lives of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Employment of People With Disabilities: The Impact of Legislation (Asia and the Pacific)
- Many countries throughout the world have, in recent years, adopted policies aiming to promote the rights of people with disabilities to full and equal participation in society. Countries in Asia and Pacific have made considerable progress in introducing legislation concerning the equalisation of opportunities for persons with disabilities, particularly during...
- White papers 2003-03-01
- Integrating Labour Inspection: Functions, Effectiveness and Training
- The right to decent working conditions can be considered a fundamental human right. As one of the most ratified ILO Conventions, Convention No. 81 on Labour Inspection is one of the basic tools to put this principle into practice. In 1999, a tripartite project "Training for Integrated Labour Inspection" for...
- White papers 2003-09-21
- The Labour Market Effects Of US FDI In Developing Countries
- This paper has a number of goals. One is to describe, from the investor or home country side, how US firms have chosen locations for their Foreign Direct Investment FDI, and provide a little of the history of these choices and how they have changed. A second is to show...
- White papers 2004-06-01
- Trade And FDI
- The external sector has always been the key to Ghana's economic performance. Good economic performance as in the late 1950s and early 1960s was associated with good trade performance while poor economic performance as in the late 1960s and 1970s was associated with a severe contraction of the external sector....
- White papers 2005-02-04
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