Based on interviews with officers and workers in four banks and four insurance companies in each country.

Discusses which countries have low and which have high Gini coefficients as well as relationships with the incomes of the poor and the rich.

Traite des problèmes conceptuels et méthodologiques ainsi que des implications politiques de la composante "embauche des travailleurs" des indicateurs Doing Business de la Banque Mondiale. Commence avec une revue critique des indicateurs "embauche des travailleurs" et de leur implication...

Proposes a methodology for measuring national poverty lines.

Criticizes the standard international definition of unemployment as being too restrictive to measure accurately unemployment in labour- surplus economies. Using Indonesia as a basis, proposes a definition which is based on trends in real wages which aims to reflect the real extent of labour...