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  • Asset-based social policy

    The definition of poverty has become significantly wider than incomes during the 1990's. Today it is commonplace to define poverty in terms of assets, capabilities...

  • Changing character of industrial development

    There is growing global evidence that the contribution of manufacturing to employment is shrinking. In contrast, services industries are accounting for a growing...

  • Exchange rates and employment

    The Exchange rate and Employment theme falls under EPN's focus area on the Macro-economy, its main objective is to provide a space where issues related to the...

  • Forced labour

    Forced labour is a global problem, affecting almost all countries of the world. In the Forced Labour Convention, 1930 (No. 29), the ILO defines forced labour for the...

  • Formal and informal linkages

    The linkages between the formal and informal economy is a significant area of investigation by policy makers, and researchers. The reason for the increased activity...

  • Informal and small enterprises

    The creation of smaller enterprises, and the support of existing enterprises and initiatives in the informal sector, is often a key tool in developing country...

  • Labour shares

    As David Ricardo famously wrote in 1817, the principal function of political economy is to determine the laws which regulate how the "whole produce of the earth" is...

  • Public sector employment

    The debate on the public sector employment has gone full circle. During periods of structural adjustment programmes there was a strong push towards reducing the size...

  • Public sector size

    Public sector employment has been studied primarily from the perspective of incentives and disincentives for employment. There is such a voluminous literature...

  • Trade agreements and labour rights

    The debate over whether international trade and observance and respect for certain labour rights should be linked is an old one. In fact, it dates back to the very...

  • Transitional jobs programmes

    Transitional Jobs seeks to overcome barriers to employment by providing individuals with a wage-paying, short-term job that combines real work, skills development,...

  • Youth employment

    Young people are defined by the United Nations as persons between the ages of 15 and 24 and adults as persons of age 25 years and over. The limitation of employment...