Towards full and decent employment / edited by José Antonio Ocampo and Jomo K.S.

Towards full employment and decent work : an introduction / Jomo K.S. -- Financial openness and employment : the need for coherent international and national policies / Rolph van der Hoeven and Malte Lübker -- Technology and employment in an open underdeveloped economy / Prabhat Patnaik -- Macroeconomic policy, employment, unemployment and gender equality / Diane Elson -- Central banks as agents of employment creation / Gerald Epstein -- Growth, employment and poverty / Azizur Rahman Khan -- Generating rural employment in Africa to fight poverty / Janvier D. Nkurunziza -- Labour market flexibility and decent work / Gerry Rodgers -- How employment and workers rights can be mde complementary / Robert Boyer -- Rethinking the informal economy : linkages with the formal economy and the formal regulatory environment / Martha Alter Chen -- Modernizing the informal sector / Victor E. Tokman -- Changing the paradigm in social security : from fiscal burden to investing in people / Michael Cichon, Krzysztof Hagemejer and John Woodall -- Transformative social policy / Thandika Mkandawire -- Protecting workers, creating jobs : rethinking social protection in developing countries / Carmen Pagés -- Transforming the developmental welfare states in East Asia / Huck-Ju Kwon -- Labour inspection for decent work and economic development / Michael J. Piore and Andrew Schrank.

xli, 305 p. : charts, graphs, tables

"Published in association with the United Nations."
Includes bibliographical references and index.

9788125032397 (Orient Longman)
9781842778838 (Zed Books)