Towards Full and Decent Employment
Date: 16 May 2007
Author: José Antonio Ocampo and Jomo K.S.
Publication: Orient Longman Private Limited, Zed Books Ltd and Third World Network in association with the United Nations
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 Africa are explored.
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 Africa to Fight Poverty
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 East Asia
HUCK-JU KWON
16. Labour Inspection for Decent Work and Economic Development
MICHAEL J. PIORE AND ANDREW SCHRANK
Contributors
Index
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