ILO Workshop on Decent Work and Poverty Reduction
1 - 3 July 2002, ITCILO, Turin

 

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Session One

Setting out the worshops objectives, D. Shields, [Go›››]
Different definitions of poverty, Pat Holden, [ppt presentation] or [lecture]
Heaven or Hubris: Reflections on the new poverty agenda, Simon Maxwell [ppt presentation] or [lecture]
Poverty reduction and inequalities - how can ILO's policies contribute to realising the millenium goals of poverty reduction?, Rolph van der Hoeven [Go›››]

Session Two

A Human Rights-Based Approach to Poverty, Robert McCorquodale [Go›››]
Group work report [Go›››]

Session Three

Livelihoods-based Approaches to Poverty: Employment and what else?, D. Shields, [Go›››]
ILO's Experience with Social Dialogue, Participation and Poverty Eradication, J. Schwettmann, [Go›››]
Poverty: Role of Governance and Social Dialogue, P. O'Donovan [Go›››]
Decent Work and Poverty Reduction, the role of Micro-Finance, B. Balkenhol [Go›››]
Group work report [Go›››]

Session Five

Poll on the ILO, Decent Work and Eradicating Poverty [Go›››]

ILO papers and links [top]

Resources for last year ILO staff conference on Decent Work [Go›››]

The effects of core workers rights on labour costs and foreign direct investments: Evaluating the "conventional wisdom", by David Kucera [Go›››]

Economic growth, social policy and decent work, by Nomaan Majid [Go›››]

ILO Round Table: How Decent Work Contributes to Poverty Alleviation [Go›››]

Technical Meeting of Researchers on Equality at Work: Concepts and Policy Responses in a Changing World, Notes for the ILO consultation, by Barbara Harriss-White [Go›››]

Poverty, Work and Gender, by Amelita King-Dejardin [Go›››]

Social Finance Annual Report 2001/2002: Finance for Decent Work [Go›››]

Decent Work Indicators, by Dharam Ghai (unpublished) [Go›››]

A brief on microfinance, decent work and poverty, Input by the Social Finance Programme[Go›››]

Generating Decent Work in an emergency - the case of Cambodia, by the Regional Office for Asia and the Pacific [Go›››] and poverty-related statistics

Report of the ILC Committee on the Informal Economy [Go›››]

Working but not well - notes on the nature and extent of employment problems in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Fred Fluitman [Go›››]

Il y a travail et travail - notes sur la nature et l'étendue des problèmes de l'emploi en Afrique subsaharienne, by Fred Fluitman [Go›››]

Employment papers nr. 4, 8, 10, 12 , 13, 22 [Go›››]

Poverty reductions strategy papers - the case of Côte d'Ivoire:

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Travail décent et Document de Stratégie de Réduction de la Pauvreté (DSRP) de Côte d'Ivoire
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Renforcement des capacités des groupes cibles chargés de la rédaction du DSRP final
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Plan d'aide des Nations Unies pour le Développement de la Côte d'Ivoire

 

Other resources and links [top]

United Nations Development Group and the Millenium Development Goals:

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The UN and the MDG: A Core Strategy
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MDG goals, targets and indicators

DFID

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Eliminating poverty, making globalisation work for the poor
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Sustainable livelihoods guidance sheets (1)
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Sustainable livelihoods guidance sheets (2)

• WORLD BANK and POVERTY:

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Slovak Republic - Living standards, employment, and labor market study
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Macroeconomic adjustment and the poor: analytical issues and cross-country evidence
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Growth, distribution, and poverty in Africa : messages from the 1990s
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Poland ' s labor market - the challenge of job creation
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Mozambique - Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper
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Poverty alleviation in Jordan : lessons for the future

• PRSP reviews [top]

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The WB and the PRSP: Flawed thinking and failing experiences Southern NGO
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Review of the PRSP processes in Tanzania by DANIDA
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PRSP review - Key issues European Commission
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Submission to IMF/World Bank Review on the PRSP Process presented by the ICFTU
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PRSP Institutionalisation Study: Final Report (ODI, 2001) UK
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Poverty in the eyes of the poor Kenyans - an insight into the process of the PRSP by T. Sisule
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Ignoring the experts: Poor people's exclusion from poverty reducing strategies Christian Aid policy briefing
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The Decent Work agenda and poverty reduction: ILO contribution to IMF/World Bank comprehensive review of PRSP ILO
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Experiences and recommendations from African Trade Unions World Confederation of Labour

WIDER - UNU [top]:

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Fiscal policy, growth and poverty reduction in Uganda S. Kayizzi-Mugerwa
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Redistribution does matter - growth and redistribution for poverty reduction H. Dagdeviren, R. van der Hoeven & J. Weeks
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Reducing poverty and inequality in India - Has liberation helped R. Jha
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Gender and education as determinants of household poverty in Nigeria C. E. E. Okojie
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Poverty reduction and economic growth: a two way causality (public lecture) Nora Lustig
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Inequality, growth and poverty in the era of liberalisation and globalisation G. A. Cornia & J. Court
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Poverty in India - Misspescified policies and estimates M. H. Suryanarayana
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Labour standards in exports and developing countries Waseem Noor
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Labour markets and income inequality - what are the new insights after the Washington consensus R. van der Hoeven
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Impact of globalisation and liberalisation on growth, employment and poverty - a case study of Pakistan Tilat Anwar

UNDP 2000 Poverty Report [Go›››]

The DAC Guidelines on Poverty Reduction (OECD, 2001) Paris [Go›››]

System failure: Why governments must learn to think differently (DEMOS, 2002) UK [Go›››]

Human rights, decent work and the role of labour standards in international development policies, by Roger Plant [Go›››]

Poverty, Vulnerability and Social Protection in a Period of Crisis: The Case of Indonesia, in World Development, July 2002 [Go›››]

Policy design for the promotion of employment and incomes in the informal economy - the need for labour market information, by George Aryee [Go›››]

 

Follow up [top]

Mission report, Nomaan Majid [Go›››]

A human rights approach to poverty reduction strategies, Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, September 2002 [Go›››]

SEED Poverty Reduction Workshop 2-3 September, 2002 [Go›››]

Poll on Decent Work issues [Go›››]

 

 

 

 

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Last update: 07-Feb-2003