Critically reviews the macroeconomic experiences of the past three decades to argue the case against orthodox macroeconomics. Suggests that the prevailing orthodoxy in macroeconomics needs to give way to an alternative policy paradigm in which the Copenhagen commitment on full employment,...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper, literature survey of economic theories dealing with the effects of devaluation on employment and poverty in developing countries - covers exchange rate trends, income distribution in market economies and planned economies, production, and monetary policy;...

Looks at the fundamental importance of employment for development.

ILO pub. Article on the effect of changes in the economic structure upon employment in developing countries - discusses factors such as varying sectoral growth rates, social change and industrial development as well as the implications of structural change in developed countries. References.

ILO pub. Article on child care services for children of men and woman workers - examines the social policy attitudes and the different institutional frameworks of child care in developed countries and developing countries, discusses the need for a well-conceived child care policy, and includes...

ILO pub. Article on economic implications of child labour in developing countries - develops a typology of child employment consisting of homemaker duties, unpaid work, forced labour, wages labour, informal sector, schooling, leisure and reproductive activities, reviews different kinds of...

ILO pub. Article on the effect of multinational enterprises on employment and technology in developing countries - covers the scope for choice of technology and technology transfer, the economic obstacles, the problems in evaluation of effects on employment creation, etc., and discusses...