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Growth, Employment and Decent Work in the Least Developed Countries.
The Growth, Employment and Decent Work in the Least Developed Countries report has been prepared for the Fourth UN Conference on Least Developed Countries (LDCs) (Istanbul, 9-13 May 2011). It reviews trends in growth, employment and decent work in LDCs, highlighting challenges and opportunities for...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Geneva :
International Labour Office,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Decent Work in Least Developed Countries; Introduction; Chapter 1: Growth, Employment and Decent Work in the LeastDeveloped Countries; 1.1 The broad pattern of growth, employment, and decent work in LDCs; 1.2 GDP Growth; Figures; Figure 1.1 GDP per capita of LDCs; Figure 1.2 Real GDP Growth in LDCs, 1999-2011p; Figure 1.3 GDP Growth in LDCs and Evolution of Commodity Price Index; Figure 1.4 GDP growth (average anuual growth, 2000-2008) and per capita income (2008) in LDCs; Tables; Table 1.1 Annual real GDP growth rates, 2000-2011p.
- Table 1.2 Merchandise exports in LDCs, 2000-2009Table 1.3 Unemployment rate by sex and for youth and adults (%); Table 1.4 Employment in major economic sectors (%); Table 1.5 Working Poor indicators (US 1.25 a day); Table 1.6 Status in Employment; Table 1.7 Vulnerable Employment Shares by Sex; Table 1.8 Summary of the Productive-Employment Target for the LDCs as a whole; Chapter 2: Macroeconomic policies to promote job creation and povertyreduction in LDCs; Introduction; The standard macroeconomic framework and its contested role in the LDC growth revivalof the 2000s.
- Aligning macroeconomic policies with the twin goals of job creation and poverty reductionin LDCs: some suggestionsBoxes; Box 2.1: Financing the MDGs and the SPF; Box 2.2: The relationship between debt relief and fiscal space in LDCs; Box 2.3: The exchange rate regime and its implications for growth and employment inMalawi; Figures; Figure 2.1; Figure 2.2; Figure 2.3; Figure 2.4; Figure 2.5; Chapter 3: Harnessing trade for growth, employment and povertyreduction; Figures; Figure 3.1: Average Annual Export Growth vs. Share of Mining in Total Exports; Tables.
- Table 3.1: Export concentration in LDCsChapter 4: What a country produces matters: agriculture, industry andservices; Tables; Table 4.1 Economic growth and share of manufacturing in GDP in LDCs fulfilling the criteria of noviolent conflict in past ten years and an average CPIA score of 3.4 or above in the past four years.; Chapter 5: The informal economy and labour market institutions; Figures; Figure 5.1 Employment in the informal economy as percentage of total employment (includingagriculture).
- Figure 5.2 Distribution of employment by status and informal/type of employment in selected Africancountries (percentage of total non-agricultural employment/total employment)Figure 5.3 Mozambique: Distribution of employmentalong the scale of informality, by sex (percentage ofpersons in employment); Figure 5.4 Zambia: Distribution of employment alongthe scale of informality, by sex (percentage of personsin employment); Figure 5.5: Perceptions of constraints among enterprises in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa.