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ABOUT THE BOOK 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 such as growing unemployment and underemployment, the phenomenon of ‘jobless growth’, the growing ‘casualization’ of employment relations, the promotion of labour flexibility at the expense of welfare security, de-industrialization and the continued decline of peasant agriculture. <p>While revisiting
some familiar with new lenses, this book also 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 playing a crucial role. While the recent trend
towards greater labour flexibility seems irresistible, recent experience
suggest 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 ABOUT THE AUTHORS José Antonio Ocampo
was United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Economic and Social Affairs
from September 2003 until June 2007. He is currently a professor at
Jomo K.S. has been Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development in the United Nations’ Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) since January 2005. Contents Acknowledgements List of Tables List of Figures Preface José Antonio Ocampa 1. Towards Full Employment and Decent Work: An Introduction JOMO K.S. 2. Financial Openness and Employment: The Need for Coherent International and National Policies ROLPH VAN DER HOEVEN AND LÜBKER 3. Technology and Employment in an Open Underdeveloped Economy PRABHAT PATNAIK 4. Macroeconomic Policy, Employment, Unemployment and Gender Equality DIANE ELSON 5. Central Banks as Agents of Employment Creation GERALD EPSTEIN 6. Growth. Employment and Poverty AZIZUR RAHMAN KHAN 7. Generating Rural Employment
in JANVIER D. NKURUNZIZA 8. Labour Market Flexibility and Decent Work GERRY RODGERS 9. How Employment and Workers Rights can be Made Complementary ROBERT BOYER 10. Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment MARTHA ALTER CHEN 11. Modernizing the Informal Sector VICTOR E. TOKMAN 12. Changing the Paradigm in Social Security: From Fiscal Burden to Investing in People MICHAEL CICHON, KRZYSZTOF HAGEMEJER AND JOHN WOODALL 13. Transformative Social Policy THANDIKA MKANDAWIRE 14. Protecting Workers, Creating Jobs: Rethinking Social Protection in Developing Countries CARMEN PAGÉS 15. Transforming the Developmental
Welfare States in HUCK-JU KWON 16. Labour Inspection for Decent Work and Economic Development MICHAEL J. PIORE AND ANDREW SCHRANK Contributors Index PRICE US$24.00
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