Links with Economic Growth/Crisis

Institutions and Female Entrepreneurship

Global Wage Report 2012/13: Wages and Equitable Growth

The Global Wage Report 2012/13 looks at differences in wages around the globe and how they have been influenced by the economic crisis. It...

Globalization, Free Trade, and the Social Impact of the Decline of Informal Production: The Case of Artisans in Quito, Ecuador

In the context of globalization and policies to promote free trade on an international scale, this paper discusses what has happened to...

Informal economy, informal state: the case of UzbekistanInternational Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

In the Soviet Union, the official command structure for economic production and distribution gave rise to, and depended upon, what has been...

The Global Economic Crisis: Challenges for Developing Asia and ADB’s Response

Globalization and Rural Food Processing by Andean Women of Peru and Bolivia

Occupational Structure and Incidence of Poverty in Indian Towns of Different Sizes

The tangled web of associational life: Urban governance and the politics of popular livelihoods in Nigeria

Global Wage Report 2012/13 Wages and equitable growth

This Report presents data on wage trends around the world and compares them with trends in labor production, analyzing the effects on the...

Whose Wealth Is It Anyway? Mozambique’s Outstanding Economic Growth with Worsening Rural Poverty

Despite rapid economic growth and massive inflows of aid, rural poverty in Mozambique is worsening. Agricultural production and productivity have...