Articles of Interest

Download the Framework Paper for Biennium 2000-2001(PDF)

• DECENT WORK FOR ALL: Targeting full employment in Thailand (PDF version) August 2000

• Country Employment Policy Review: Ukraine, ILO/CEET, Budapest, 1999 (PDF)
• Austria: Long-term success through social partnership by Karl Pichelmann, Helmut Hofer, 1999, ILO Employment and Training Paper No. 52 (ISBN 92-2-111795-2)
• Denmark: Flexibility, security and labour market success by Per Kongshoj Madsen, 1999, ILO Employment and Training Paper No. 53 (ISBN 92-2-111796-0)
• Astonishing success: Economic growth and the labour market in Ireland by Philip J. O'Connell, 1999, ILO Employment and Training Paper No. 44 (ISBN 92-2-111756-1)
• The Netherlands: So what's so special about the Dutch model? by Joop Hartog,1999, ILO Employment and Training Paper No.54 (ISBN 92-2-111797-9)
• Employment revival in Europe: Labour market success in Austria, Denmark, Ireland and the Netherlands by Peter Auer, ILO, 2000 (ISBN 92-2-110841-4)
• Chile: Crecimiento, empleeo y el desafio de la justicia social, ILO, 1998 (PDF)
• Hungary: Employment and Sustainable Livelihoods, ILO-CEET, Budapest, 1997 (PDF)
• Nepal: Employment in Nepal: Prospects and Policies, ILO-SAAT, New Delhi, 1997 - (PDF)
• Brasil: Abertura e ajuste do mercado de trabalho no Brasil, ILO and Ministério do trabalho e emprego, 1999 (ISBN 85-7326-135-8) (PDF)
• Barbados 1998: Employment policy in a small-island economy, ILO Caribbean Office, Port of Spain, 1999 (ISBN 92-2-111710-3) (PDF)
• Kenya: Meeting the Employment Challenge of the 21st Century, ILO/EAMAT, Addis Ababa, 1999 (ISBN 92-2-111945-9) (PDF)

Economic growth, social policy and decent work (Employment Paper No. 2001/19), by Nomaan Majid.

• What is the "development objective" of decent work?
• Is there a human development framework that the decent work agenda can be linked to?
• Why is there greater policy space to propose a decent work agenda today than was the case before?
• How feasible are policy interventions for promoting decent work?
• Are there any priorities within the decent work agenda?
• If a country performs well on one dimension of decent work, should we expect it to perform well on others?
• What do initial empirical investigations suggest about decent work as a whole?
• Employment Sector Macroeconomic and Development Policy Group-Publications
• http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/strat/macropol/publ.htm 
• The size of the working poor population in developing countries (Employment Paper No. 2001/16), by Nomaan Majid.
• Is minimum wage an effective tool to provide decent jobs and reduce poverty? The experience of selected developing countries (Employment Paper No. 2001/13), by Catherine Saget, ILO, Geneva, 2001.
• Labour market and income inequality - What are the new insights after the Washington consensus?, (UNU/WIDER working paper), by Rolph van der Hoeven, Helsinki, 2001.
• Redistribution matters: Growth for poverty reduction (Employment Paper No. 2001/10), by Hulya Dagdeviren, Rolph van der Hoeven and John Weeks, ILO, Geneva, 2001.
• "Assessing Aid" and Global Governance - Why poverty and redistribution objectives matter, (Employment Paper No. 2000/8), by Rolph van der Hoeven, ILO, Geneva, 2001.
• Pakistan: Employment, output and productivity, (Issues in development Discussion Paper No. 33), by Majid, N. et al., ILO, Geneva, 2000.
• Poverty and structural adjustment: Some remarks on tradeoffs between equity and growth (Employment Paper No. 2000/4) by Rolph van der Hoeven, ILO, Geneva, 2000.
• The Indian economic reform process and the implications of the southeast Asian crisis (Employment and Training Paper No. 55), by Chandrasekhar C.P. and Ghosh, J., ILO, Geneva, 1999).
• Ajustement structurel, emploi et rôle des partenaires sociaux en Afrique francophone (Employment and Training Paper No. 28), by Hugon, P. and Pagès, N., ILO, Geneva, 1998.

• Report IV for the 91st Session (2003) of the International Labour Conference "Learning and training for work in the knowledge society" is now available in (PDF) Click here for English
• Vocational Education and Training Reform:Matching skills to markets and budget, ILO/WB joint publication,
  I. Gill and F. Fluitman (eds.),
  Oxford University Press, New York, 2000
• Plain talk on the field of dreams: The roles of evaluation for vocational education and training N. Grubb and P. Ryan, International Labour Office, Geneva, 1999
• Managing vocational training systems Handbook for senior administrators V. Gaskov International Labour Office, Geneva, 2000
• Malaysia: Skills for global competitiveness
  W.Y. Kiong
• South Africa: Experience of the building industry
  P.S. Nel
• Spain: Building a system for continuing education*
  M.A. Sallé, Enred Consultants, Madrid.
• United Kingdom: Encouraging employer investment
  T. Crowley-Bainton
• Training Policy and Employability-Towards a new recommendation Employment Sector