Employment and Inclusive Development

This book supports the view that employment is a cross-cutting issue shaped by macroeconomic and microeconomic policy interventions, and provides a capacious framework to analyse the complexity of this global debate. It covers a wide range of issues that have received insufficient attention in the discourse of development and labour economics. <

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Employment and Inclusive Growth: A Development Perspective 3. Macroeconomic policy, growth and employment 4. Structural transformation and productive employment creation: alternative pathways 5. Rights-based Approach to Employment 6. Human Capital and Inclusive Development 7. Youth Employment 8. Labour market flexibility, informality and employment 9. Labour Market Risks and Social Protection 10. Conclusions and a way forward

About the author

Rizwanul Islam is former Special Adviser, Employment Sector, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland.

Iyanatul Islam is currently Chief, Employment and Labour Market Policies Branch, ILO, Geneva, Switzerland.

Summary

This book supports the view that employment is a cross-cutting issue shaped by macroeconomic and microeconomic policy interventions, and provides a capacious framework to analyse the complexity of this global debate. It covers a wide range of issues that have received insufficient attention in the discourse of development and labour economics. <

Product details

• Authors: Iyanatul Islam, Rizwanul Islam, Rizwanul (International Labour Organisation Islam, Islam Iyanatul, Islam Rizwanul
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367867812
• ISBN: 978-0-367-86781-2
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Studies in Development Economics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Christianity; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General, Society & culture: general, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Economic Development, Labour / income economics, Politics & government, Labour Economics, Political Economy, Politics and government, Sociology: work & labour, Society and culture: general, Development economics & emerging economies, Development economics and emerging economies, Sociology: work and labour