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Below
are some interesting links on topical issues:
- Trade and development:
The European Commission adopts a strategy to promote core
labour standards and social governance. [Go]
- Will Africa embark on
a sustained growth path during this decade? Report of an expert
group meeting (with the participation of R. van der Hoeven). [Go]
- European labour market rigidity
not a constraint to growth : report of the UN Economic Commission
for Europe. [Go]
- The Zedillo report
or report of a UN High-Level Panel on Financing for Development.
[Go]
- Prospects for equitable
social provision in a globalised world, Bob Deacon. [Go]
- Social Policy in a Development
Context, Thandika Mkandawire. Downloadable from www.unirsd.org
- Working to live or living
to work, a short presentation by Richard Freeman contrasting
American and European stylised attitudes to work and lifestyles.
[Go]
- The transformation of
work and employment and new insecurities, by Eileen Appelbaum,
reviewing the experience of industrialised countries, with particular
attention to the changing labour market position of women, in
both North America and Europe. [Go]
- Four simple principles
for democratic governance of globalization, Dani Rodrik. [Go]
- Growth and Poverty Reduction:
What are the real questions? Dani Rodrik, August 2000. [Go]
- The rise and fall of
development economics, Paul Krugman [Go]
- "Rapid poverty reduction
is a reality, not a pipe dream" says Oxfam International
report. [Go]
- Address by Mary Robinson,
United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights before the Third
United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, Brussels,
14 May 2001. [Go]
and search for date 14 May 01
- Poverty Reduction Strategy
Sourcebook, The World Bank produced handbook on poverty
reduction. [Go]
- In The Economist
dated 28 April 2001, Robert Wade (LSE Professor of political economy)
discusses data suggesting that global income inequality has increased,
and argues that both worsening poverty and worsening income distribution
should be matters of urgent attention. The Economist challenges
these views in the economics focus section of the same edition.
[Go]
- Holding a Job, Having
a life, Strategies for Change by J. Casner-Lotto (2000)
A report by the Work in America Institute on new strategies adopted
by American workplaces combining improved work and business performance
and employees work/life/family integration. [Go]
- Work life 2000, a
European Presidency Conference on the theme of quality in work
organised on 22-24 January 2001 by the Swedish Presidency, website
with some useful papers and interventions on quality in work dimensions.
[Go]
- Rethinking the development
agenda, by José Antonio Ocampo, ECLAC Executive Secretary,
presenting the main conclusions of an alternative view of globalisation
with a new set of policy proposals geared towards economic growth
and development rather than only stabilization and growth. [Go]
- From the Latin American
Economic Policies journal: Is Growth Enough? [Go]
- Work and rights, Amartaya
Sen (ILR) [Go]
- Social protection for all:
but how ? Roger Beattie (ILR, Vol. 139 # 2) [Go]
- The economics of child labour:
A framework for measurement, Richard Anker in International Labour
Revue, 2000/3 [Go]
- Trade liberalization, employment
and global inequality, Ajit Ghose in International Labour Revue
2000/3 [Go]
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