Towards Full and Decent Employment

Informationen zum Autor J. A. OCAMPO is Under-Secretary General and JOMO K. S. is Assistant Secretary General for the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) in the United Nations Secretariat. Klappentext While the international community has made a commitment to achieving full employment and decent work for all, this goal seems ever more distant in view of recent trends. Revisiting some familiar terrain with new lenses, this book breaks new ground in seeking fresh solutions. Employment creation is the key link in ensuring that economic growth contributes to poverty reduction, with management of technological change crucial. While the recent trend towards greater labor flexibility seems irresistible, recent experience suggests some options for also ensuring decent work and economic security. Although recent financial liberalization has exacerbated employment problems, alternative macroeconomic policy priorities can make a difference. New approaches to social security, the informal economy, the welfare state and rural employment in Africa are explored. Zusammenfassung Looks at the fundamental importance of employment for development. This book states that employment creation is the key link in ensuring that economic growth contributes to poverty reduction. It also explores different approaches to social security! the informal economy! the welfare state and rural employment in Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. Technology and Employment in an Open Underdeveloped Economy - Prabhat Patnaik 2. Growth! Employment and Poverty: An Analysis of the Vital Nexus Based on Some Recent UNDP and ILO/SIDA Studies - Azizur Rahman Khan 3. Labour Market Flexibility and Decent Work - Gerry Rodgers 4. Employment and Decent Work in the Era of Flexicurity - Robert Boyer 5. Central Banks As Agents of Employment Creation - Gerald Epstein 6. Financial Openness and Employment: The Need for Coherent International and National Policies - Rolph van der Hoeven and Malte Lubker 7. Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment - Martha Alter Chen 8. Modernizing the Informal Economy - Victor Tokman 9. Changing the paradigm in social security: From fiscal burden to investing in people - Michael Cichon! Krzysztof Hagemejer and John Woodall 10. Transforming the Developmental Welfare States in East Asia - Huck-Ju Kwon 11. Generating Rural Employment in Africa to Fight Poverty - Janvier Desire Nkurunziza 12. On the Need for Providing Employment Guarantee - Prabhat Patnaik 13. Macroeconomic policy and employment generation - Michael Piore 14. Generating Employment - Anis Ahmad Dani 15. Macroeconomic Policy and Employment Generation: Gender Dimensions - Diane Elson 16. Protecting Workers! Creating Jobs: Rethinking Social Protection in Developing Countries - Carmen Pages CONTRIBUTOR AFFILIATIONS PRABHAT PATNAIK: Professor! Centre for Economic Studies & Planning! Jawaharlal Nehru University! New Delhi AZIZUR RAHMAN KHAN: Adjunct Professor of International and Public Affairs! Columbia University. GERRY RODGERS: Director of the International Institute for Labour Studies! Geneva. ROBERT BOYER: Professor of Economics! Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Science Sociales! Paris. GERALD EPSTEIN: Co-director! Political Economy Research Institute! University of Massachusetts. ROLPH VAN DER HOEVEN: Technical Secretariat of World Commission on the Social Dimension of Globalization! ILO MALTE LUBKER: Policy Integration Department! International Labour Office. MARTHA ALTER CHEN: Horner Distinguished Visiting Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study! Lecturer in Public Policy at the Kennedy School of Government! Harvard University and Coordinator of the global network 'Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing' (WIEGO). VICTOR TOKMAN: Formerly Economic Advisor to the President of Chile and...

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• Authors: Jose Antonio Jomo Ocampo
• Assisted by: K. S. Jomo (Editor), Jomo K. S. (Editor), Jomo Ks (Editor), Jose Antonio Ocampo (Editor)
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.01.2008
• EAN: 9781842778821
• ISBN: 978-1-84277-882-1
• No. of pages: 411
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics