The paper explores the potential impact of regional economic integration on Myanmar, a country that has suffered from more than 20 years of Western sanctions. The country’s accession into the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) offered economic and trading opportunities, while the...

This study is inspired by the current debate on whether central banks, especially in the developing world, should pursue a single mandate or dual/multiple mandates. It examines the Bangladesh Bank’s (BB) aspiration to adopt a multiple mandates approach. These include, besides the objective of...

This paper presents a rationale for analysing employment by taking the sectoral structure of an economy into consideration. It provides an overview of ways of measuring employment intensity and discusses the relationship between employment intensity and labour productivity. It uses the South...

Describes the framework of the Tourism Labour Accounting System (TLAS), an extension of the Tourism Satellite Accounts (TSA). Provides guidance on identifying relevant sources of national statistics to obtain and present estimates on employment and conditions of work in the tourism sector....

This paper was written by Gijsbert van Liemt, an independent consultant on employment and skills policies, and a former ILO official working on Active Labour Market Policies. His paper discusses secondary technical and vocational education and training (TVET) in the Netherlands, highlighting the...

Reviews the social and economic position of indigenous and tribal people with a view to identifying the role of the cooperative movement in supporting employment and income generation whilst preserving their traditional livelihoods.

Assesses the situation in three public emergency services in Bulgaria in relation to the ILO guidelines on social dialogue in the public emergency services in a changing environment adopted in 2003.