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Protecting the Poor: A microinsurance compendium

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Protecting the Poor: A microinsurance compendium, volume II , is a unique collection of recent practices and emerging ideas in microinsurance. It covers the numerous innovations that have emerged in recent years to meet the challenges of providing insurance to low-income people, from new products and delivery channels to consumer education tools, while examining institutional changes in regulations, providers and schemes. As the microinsurance community dramatically evolves and millions more more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 14, 2012

Start and Improve Your Business - Global Tracer Study 2011

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This study traces the outreach of the 'Start and Improve Your Business' (SIYB) programme and some other key achievements, including estimates of its impact. The report has been prepared for practitioners in enterprise development who want to use SIYB, as well as any other organization or individual engaged in entrepreneurship and management training.

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Moushumi Biswas on May 15, 2012

World of Work Report 2012 : Better Jobs for a Better Economy

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The World of Work Report 2012 provides a comprehensive analysis of recent labour market and social trends, assesses risks of social unrest and presents employment projections for the next five years. The report emphasizes that while employment has begun to recover slowly, job quality is deteriorating and there is a growing sense of unfairness. Moreover, given the pressure on governments to rein in expenditure, policy efforts have focused on structural reforms to boost employment creation. more...

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Moushumi Biswas on May 14, 2012

Governing globalization: jobs, equity and the management of systemic risks

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Prof Ian Goldin, Director of Oxford Martin School, delivered the keynote address to the Governing Body of the ILO on the future and the potential for jobs and decent livelihood. In his lecture, Prof Goldin made a remarkable analysis of the dynamics of globalization and offered insights and perspectives into how policy actions on equity, migration, innovation and growth will shape our lives and work in the twenty-first century.

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Moushumi Biswas on April 19, 2012

Regional Trade and Employment in ECOWAS

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This study deals with the effects of regional trade in the ECOWAS region on decent employment. The first part analyzes the composition of regional versus global trade in terms of its linkages with three dimensions of decent work: Number of jobs, labour productivity, and employment and income security. It argues that regional trade has an important role for all three dimensions, but that effects vary substantially across countries. Following recent trends in international trade literature, the more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 20, 2012

Growth, employment and decent work in Namibia: A situation analysis

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During the past three decades, development thinking has been dominated by a genre of economics that emphasizes the attainment of macroeconomic stability, believing that once this is achieved, the social goals of employment creation and poverty reduction would automatically fall into place. The macroeconomic framework has been narrowly interpreted to mean ‘minimize fiscal deficits, minimize inflation, minimize tariffs, maximize privatization, and maximize liberalization of finance.’ However, in more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 20, 2012

Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis

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The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

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Moushumi Biswas on January 26, 2012

Just released: The Microinsurance Innovation Facility Annual Report 2011

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Microinsurance Innovation Facility's Annual Report 2011 The first part outlines the emerging trends in microinsurance, while the second looks at the insights that the Facility has gained over the past 4 years. The Annexes provide details on the Facility's partners, including grantees, and on the knowledge dissemination and professional development activities implemented during the year. http://www.ilo.org/public/english/employment/mifacility/download/annual/annualreport2011_en.pdfRapport annuel more...

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Microinsurance Innovation Facility on March 18, 2012

Buried in bricks: A rapid assessment of bonded labour in brick kilns in Afghanistan

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This study analyses bonded labour in brick kilns within the broader humanitarian and development context to help stakeholders address the risks of bonded labour in light of social, economic and political policy priorities. It provides a bottom-up and top-down analysis drawing from data gathered from bonded labourers, employers, and local community leaders in Deh Sabz, Kabul, and Surkhroad, Nangarhar, as well as from interviews with stakeholders and experts between August and October 2011.

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Moushumi Biswas on February 08, 2012

The Great Recession of 2008-2009: Causes, consequences and policy responses

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The global financial crisis of 2007 has cast its long shadow on the economic fortunes of many countries, resulting in what has often been called the ‘Great Recession’. What started as seemingly isolated turbulence in the sub-prime segment of the US housing market mutated into a full blown recession by the end of 2007. The old proverbial truth that the rest of the world sneezes when the US catches a cold appeared to be vindicated as systemically important economies in the European Union and more...

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Moushumi Biswas on March 08, 2012

Stress Prevention at Work Checkpoints. Practical improvements for stress prevention in the workplace

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Work-related stress is one of the most important issues in many countries. The negative impacts of stress are multiform and can include circulatory and gastrointestinal diseases as well as physical, psychosomatic and psycho-social problems. These in turn can lead to poor work performance, high accident and injury rates, and low productivity. This publication will be essential reading for national authorities, company and organizational managers, trade unions, occupational safety and health more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 18, 2012

Women and labour markets in Asia: Rebalancing for Gender Equality

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While undoubtedly some progress has been made in past decades in addressing gender inequality, discrimination against women remains pervasive throughout the labour markets of the region. Gender inequalities are not only rooted in the socio-cultural norms of countries but also entrenched in the policy and institutional frameworks that shape the employment opportunities of Asia’s female labour force of 734 million.Gender inequality in labour markets remains a persistent phenomenon, albeit to more...

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D C on May 19, 2011

Ergonomic Checkpoints in Agriculture

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Agriculture is one of the most hazardous sectors in both developing and developed countries. Increasing attention is being given to applying practical actions in rural and agricultural settings to reduce work-related accidents and diseases, improve living conditions and increase productivity. Reports from many countries have shown the feasibility and effectiveness of ergonomic innovations that have improved working and living conditions in rural and agricultural settings. Building on these good more...

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Moushumi Biswas on January 18, 2012

Disability in the workplace: Employers´ organizations and business networks

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This report presents 12 contemporary case studies of employers' organizations and business networks and their work around the issue of disability in the workplace. The profiles highlight how representative organizations of business engage with their members to address disability by illustrating key practices and activities, providing information and tools on disability and employment, influencing policy on employment and training of disabled people, providing career development opportunities more...

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D C on November 14, 2011

Private employment agencies in Morocco

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This paper examines private employment agencies and temporary agency work in a country having ratified the Private Employment Agencies Convention, 1997 (No. 181), Morocco. In 2011, Morocco was the largest market in North Africa for employment agencies, with an estimated 1,200 agencies. Leading agencies have expressed concern about youth employment, and their commitment to actively work on the issue.

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Moushumi Biswas on February 13, 2012

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