Summarises developments in the methodology of estimating requirements for skilled labour, and considers implications for employment in developing and centrally planned economy countries.

Contends that child labour policies, programmes and research have been much too simplistic and that a lack of attention to the economics of child labour as well as to its complexity has retarded an effective elimination of its unacceptable forms. Focusses on measurement issues, e.g. exploitation...

Examines the evolution of the approach of the ILO to the problem of poverty between 1919 and 1995.