Discusses the financial significance of Uganda's flower industry, employment practices and working conditions there in, and government policies.

Includes the text of the ILO Recommendation concerning General Conditions to Stimulate Job Creation in Small and Medium-sized Enterprises, 1998 (No.189).

Reviews problems and needs of a number of Thai urban-based micro and small enterprises (MSEs). Based upon a survey of MSEs in Bangkok and urban Phetchaburi, carried out during April-June 1999. Includes the text of ILO Recommendation concerning General Conditions to Stimulate Job Creation in...

Reviews international best practice in the area of business development services (BDS) for small and medium-sized enterprises and assesses the potential for replication of some of the more promising approaches in Thailand. Includes the text of the ILO Recommendation concerning General Conditions...

This report analyses the informal sector of Benin in 1985. A first part examines the characteristics and potentialities of the sector as an important provider of productive employment, training and contributor to rapid economic growth. The second part studies the constraints of the production...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on computer aided manufacturing, management information systems and specific industry restructuring in Belgium - based on case studies of the introduction of information technology and microelectronics innovations in the iron and steel industry and the textile...