Publications

2012

1. UN World Youth Report Summary

   06 February 2012

2. Key facts and selected quotes from worldwide youth contributors to the World Youth Report

   06 February 2012

3. Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification in Bangladesh: The Case of Pharmaceuticals and Agro-Food

   25 January 2012

   Final Report on Skills and Economic Diversification for the Pharma and Agro-Food Sectors in Bangladesh

4. 

   Global Employment Trends 2012: Appendices

   24 January 2012

   The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

5. 

   Global Employment Trends 2012 - Chapter 4: Policy options for growth with jobs

   24 January 2012

   The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

6. 

   Global Employment Trends 2012 - Chapter 3: Regional labour market and economic developments

   24 January 2012

   The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

7. 

   Global Employment Trends 2012 - Chapter 2: Global labour market situation

   24 January 2012

   The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

8. 

   Global Employment Trends 2012 - Chapter 1: The macroeconomic outlook is deteriorating

   24 January 2012

   The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

9. 

   Executive Summary - "Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis"

   24 January 2012

   The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policymakers in the coming year.

10. 

    Global Employment Trends 2012: Preventing a deeper jobs crisis

    24 January 2012

    The annual Global Employment Trends report offers the latest global and regional information and projections on several indicators of the labour market, including employment, unemployment, working poverty and vulnerable employment. It also presents a number of policy considerations in light of the new challenges facing policy makers in the coming year.

11. 

    Upgrading informal apprenticeship - A resource guide for Africa

    12 January 2012

2011

1. Diverging trends in unemployment in the United States and Europe: Evidence from Okun's law and the global financial crisis

   21 December 2011

   Employment Working Paper No. 106

2. Assessement of the environment for the development of women's entrepreneurship in Cameroon, Mali, Nigeria, Rwanda and Senegal

   19 December 2011

   Employment Sector - Employment Report No. 15

3. Macroeconomics of growth and employment: The case of Turkey

   15 December 2011

   Employment Working Paper No. 108

4. 

   Making Microfinance Work: Managing Product Diversification

   05 December 2011

   This textbook, designed for middle and senior managers in microfinance institutions, is relevant for institutions that have already diversified and are looking for ways to manage their diversification more effectively as well as those that have not yet done so and are looking for guidance on where and how to begin. This second volume builds on the highly acclaimed "Making Microfinance Work: Managing for Improved Performance".

5. Macroeconomic policy for full and productive and decent employment for all: The case of Nigeria

   02 December 2011

   Employment Working Paper No. 107

6. Ethiopia: Women with disabilities harness the power of entrepreneurship

   23 November 2011

   Despite the role of empowerment in improving the livelihoods of poor people, there is still a huge gap between the theory of empowerment and its practice. To help bridge this gap and provide guidance, this story describes real-life empowerment made possible by the ILO-Irish Aid Partnership Programme on disability which set out to provide and promote entrepreneurship training for disabled women in Ethiopia, in partnership with local organizations. It is part of a series of stories of empowerment produced by the Development Co-operation Directorate - Development Assistance Committee (DAC) Network on Poverty Reduction of the OECD.

7. 

   China: From an Active Employment Policy to Employment Promotion Law. Coping with economic restructuring and labour market adjustments

   20 November 2011

   "China has enjoyed spectacularly high GDP growth rates for over more than three decades, thanks to the massive economic, social and institutional reforms put in place during a period of intensifying globalization." Based on a study by the Institute for Labour Studies Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, People's Republic of China, this report provides a unique account of China's move towards increased participation in the market economy and how the Government coped with the massive labour adjustments that came with the restructuring process.

8. Building Business and Entrepreneurship Awareness.

   17 November 2011

   An ILO experience of integrating entrepreneurship education into national vocational education systems

9. Research Brief - Investment in renewable energy generates jobs. Supply of skilled workforce needs to catch up

   17 November 2011