Global Employment Trends 2012 - Chapter 1
Title | Global Employment Trends 2012 - Chapter 1 PDF eBook |
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Release | 2012 |
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Global Employment Trends
Title | Global Employment Trends PDF eBook |
Author | Claire Harasty |
Publisher | International Labour Organization |
Pages | 128 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Law |
ISBN | 9221133605 |
Incorporating the most recent data available for 2002, this report analyses current labour market trends and examines the impact of the global economic downturn and post 11 September developments upon different world regions. Covering Latin America and the Caribbean, East Asia, South East Asia, the Middle East and North Africa and sub-Saharan Africa, the transition economies and industrial countries, it focuses on the distinct labour market characteristics and challenges faced by each region and economic group. It also traces factors contributing to the global employment decline, such as the increase in informal sector employment, the decrease in employment in information and communication technology, as well as extensive jobs losses in the travel and tourism industries and the export and labour-intensive manufacturing sectors.
Global Employment Trends 2012
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World Employment and Social Outlook
Title | World Employment and Social Outlook PDF eBook |
Author | International Labour Office |
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Pages | 0 |
Release | 2020-01-20 |
Genre | Employment (Economic theory) |
ISBN | 9789220314081 |
This report provides an overview of global and regional trends in employment, unemployment, labour force participation and productivity, as well as dimensions of job quality such as employment status, informal employment and working poverty. It also examines income and social developments, and provides an indicator of social unrest. Key findings are that are unemployment is projected to rise after a long period of stability, and that many people are working fewer paid hours than they would like or lack adequate access to paid work. The report also takes a close look at decent work deficits and persistent labour market inequalities, noting that income inequality is higher than previously thought.
The People Want
Title | The People Want PDF eBook |
Author | Gilbert Achcar |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 322 |
Release | 2013-09-03 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0520280512 |
The sponsoring of the Muslim Brotherhood by the Emirate of Qatar and its influential satellite channel, Al Jazeera, contributed to shaping the prelude to the uprising. But the explosion's deep roots, asserts Achcar, mean that what happened until now is but the beginning of a revolutionary process likely to extend for many more years to come. The author identifies the actors and dynamics of the revolutionary process: the role of various social and political movements, the emergence of young actors making intensive use of new information and communication technologies, and the nature of power elites and existing state apparatuses that determine different conditions for regime overthrow in each case. Drawing a balance-sheet of the uprising in the countries that have been most affected by it until now, i.e. Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya and Syria, Achcar sheds special light on the nature and role of the movements that use Islam as a political banner.
Macroeconomic Policy Formation in Africa - Country Cases
Title | Macroeconomic Policy Formation in Africa - Country Cases PDF eBook |
Author | Karl Wohlmuth |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 407 |
Release | 2014 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 364390522X |
This Volume 17 of the African Development Perspectives Yearbook considers the following major issues: the macroeconomic policies in post-conflict countries (especially reviews of growth, social progress, and public finance strategies in medium-term frameworks) with Sudan and South Sudan as the country cases; and macroeconomic policy formation in West Africa -- with case studies presented on Senegal and Nigeria in the West African Monetary Zone and the CFA Zone. In addition, the book presents book reviews and book notes. (Series: African Development Perspectives Yearbook - Vol. 17) [Subject: African Studies, Economics]
EXPLOITED, UNDERVALUED - AND ESSENTIAL: DOMESTIC WORKERS AND THE REALISATION OF THEIR RIGHTS
Title | EXPLOITED, UNDERVALUED - AND ESSENTIAL: DOMESTIC WORKERS AND THE REALISATION OF THEIR RIGHTS PDF eBook |
Author | Darcy du Toit |
Publisher | PULP |
Pages | 388 |
Release | 2013-11-18 |
Genre | Civil rights |
ISBN | 1920538208 |
Millions of domestic workers experience exploitation in the privacy of their employers’ homes; also in South Africa they are to a large extent beyond the reach of legal protection. This book sums up four years of research on ways of realising their rights. It highlights their essential role, both as care-givers and in enabling their employers to work outside the home. Against the background of the Constitution and international law it examines ways of adapting the legal framework as well as alternative mechanisms, including new forms of organisation, for translating basic rights into effective regulation.