Perspectives on globalization and employment
By: Yilmaz Akyüz ... [et al.] ; edited by Bibek Debroy.
Contributors: Akyüz, Yılmaz.; Debroy, Bibek.; United Nations Development Programme. Office of Development Studies
Series: Discussion paper series ;; 14.; Discussion paper series (United Nations Development Programme. Office of Development Studies) ;; 14.
Publisher: United Nations Development Programme, Bureau for Development Policy, Office of Development Studies
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
Subjects: Manpower policy.; Unemployment.; Economic policy.; Globalization.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
"Responses to Discussion paper 4: Rival States, Rival Firms, How Do People Fit In? The Global Unemployment Challenge by Isabelle Grunberg"--Cover.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Forew ord v; title: Introduction1; title: Bibek Debroy; title: Comments; title: Latin American countries suffer with the same employment8; title: problems as rich countries, plus those which are more structural; title: Edward Amadeo; title: In the North, self-imposed deflationary policies and11; title: insufficient capital formation are the first suspects; title: Yilmaz Akyiz; title: Investment in human capital, with sufficient aggregate14; title: demand, is the path to higher employment; title: Robert Eisner; title: Not enough attention is being paid to the decline of the18; title: solidarity principle in the new economic order; title: Ricardo Infante; title: Labour markets matter20; title: Azizur Rahman Khan; title: Labour markets in developing countries are quite23; title: different from those in developed countries; title: Rachel Kurian; title: African countries have been placed along a low equilibrium 31; title: trap, leading to more stable and more efficient, but stagnant; title: economies; title: Thandika Mkandawire; title: After the Fordist bargain, then what?36; title: Bernard Perret; title: Overwork, not unemployment, is the challenge41; title: facing people in developing countries; title: Gita Sen; title: Change is inevitable-in mental attitudes,43; title: but also in taxation and social security systems; title: Susan Strange; title: Transition economies have the worse of both worlds:47; title: the double-digit unemployment of Western Europe, and; title: America's lack of social safety nets; title: Irina Voloschuk; title: Special Contribution; title: Global unemployment, growth and labour market rigidities:50; title: a commentary; title: Ajit Singh; title: A Rejoinder70; title: Isabelle Grunberg I.