Looks at the performance of the manufacturing and service sectors in terms of employment generation since the early 1990s.

Uses a gravity trade model to estimate the effects of child labour and education on exports from 1993 to 1999, evaluating total exports, total manufacturing exports and manufacturing exports broken down by labour and skill intensity of production using four different classifications of...

Focuses on the building of roads and infrastructure in the region of Angkor.

Includes a list of ILO Conventions apply to temporary construction workers.

Discusses the impact of structural transformation in the industrial sector and regional integration on labour market issues in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Based on 1987 and 1988 data from the Annual Survey of Industries (ASI) and the Census of Small Scale Industries (CSSI).

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...