Informality And Globalisation In Search Of A New Social Contract

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Globalisation and rapid technological change have radically transformed labour markets, affecting the lives and prospects of billions of workers. Those in the informal economy, the vast bulk of the workforce in the Global South, have been bearing the brunt.

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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Release : 2023-04-20
File : 167 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789264801349


Informality And Globalisation

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Globalisation and rapid technological change have radically transformed labour markets, affecting the lives and prospects of billions of workers. Those in the informal economy, the vast bulk of the workforce in the Global South, have been bearing the brunt. This report is for policy makers seeking to address the factors that make those workers in informality vulnerable. It provides them with a distinctive cross-country comparison of recent informality trends, and how they were affected by the recent crises such as the COVID-19 epidemic, casting light on the impacts of sub-contracting models in global value chains, and digital labour platforms. It argues that an inclusive recovery and greater resilience to future crises necessitate that many countries renew their social contracts, to make them more inclusive of informal workers and their families.

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Release : 2023
File : 0 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9264927271


Breaking The Vicious Circles Of Informal Employment And Low Paying Work

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This report adds two perspectives on informality. It disassembles the mechanics of the deleterious links between informal employment, low-paying work and low skills. It shows that informal employment is highly persistent, and that the vulnerability of informal workers is passed on to their children in the absence of adequate education, skills and social protection policy.

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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Release : 2024-01-15
File : 166 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789264700079


Grassroots Innovation

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This book explores the process of grassroots innovation in the context of the Global South. It explains why these bottom-up solutions developed by common people are generated due to a lack of available or affordable technology to meet their needs and how they are included in the mainstream imagination of the economy by studying these innovations in India. It analyses the grassroots innovation process from idea generation to its implementation. Detailing both theoretical and practical dimensions of grassroots innovation, the book provides a holistic understanding of the phenomenon by tracing its history in the pre-independence discourse on development to the present-day policies for institutionalizing these innovations in the mainstream. It will provide the readers with a bottom-up commentary on innovation and development in the context of the Global South in general and India in particular. It adopts a qualitative research design with a wide range of data collected through interviews, participant observations, and field notes. The book contains seven chapters to describe the discourse, policy perspectives, and current practice of grassroots innovations in general. The interdisciplinary, timely book provides thoughtful analysis for scholars and upper-level students in the fields of technology and innovation management, development studies, and public management.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Hemant Kumar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2024-06-21
File : 191 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781040044278


Social Institutions And Gender Index Sigi 2024 Regional Report For Southeast Asia Time To Care

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The report explores a critical policy area for the region, the care economy. Stressing the gendered, informal, and unpaid dimensions of care, it draws on social, demographic, educational and economic evidence to forecast a growing demand for care services in Southeast Asian countries.

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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Release : 2024-03-18
File : 200 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789264367142


Capitalism In The Platform Age

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Author : Sandro Mezzadra
Publisher : Springer Nature
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File : 367 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783031491474


The Political Economy Of Post Capitalism

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Westra explores a nuanced literature on post-capitalism which claims that instead of constituting the end of history or ending in its supplanting by socialism, capitalism has transmuted into something else. Foci of this literature ranges from questions of financial system and technological change through evidence of shifting class contours metastasizing a more predatory constellation. In exposing the dire consequences for humanity of capitalist unravelling, Westra remedies the lacunae of current writings which leave fundamental questions of what precisely capitalism is or was and the historical delimitations of capitalism unanswered. He not only critically analyzes the arguments over capitalisms passing under key rubrics of financialization, globalization, intangible assets and social class, but grounds determinations over the existence of capitalism in a novel synthetic definition of it drawn from Marx. While capitalism has always been an exploitative, asymmetric wealth distributive, alienating, class divisive, crises ridden society, Westra explains how current economic transmutations undermine what coherence capitalism had historically maintained. This book, written in a clear and compelling fashion, is a clarion call for social change. It will be of interest to academics and students across fields of economics, political economy, economic history, political science and sociology as well as to progressive policymakers and social activists.

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Genre : Business & Economics
Author : Richard Westra
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Release : 2024-08-02
File : 158 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781040104309


Latin American Economic Outlook 2023 Investing In Sustainable Development

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Latin America and the Caribbean needs an ambitious and comprehensive investment agenda to embark on a stronger and more sustainable development trajectory. The 16th edition of the Latin American Economic Outlook proposes ways to make this possible through co-ordinated actions by policy makers, the private sector and international partners.

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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Release : 2023-12-15
File : 283 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789264546936


Humanistic Management In The Gig Economy

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Author : Kemi Ogunyemi
Publisher : Springer Nature
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File : 377 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9783031599446


Development Co Operation Report 2024 Tackling Poverty And Inequalities Through The Green Transition

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Faced with multiple priorities, including the imperative of accelerating the global green transition, development co-operation providers are at risk of losing sight of a silent, yet devastating crisis that has been unfolding even before the COVID-19 pandemic: the alarming increase of poverty and inequalities in low and middle-income countries. And yet, not only are ending poverty and reducing inequalities at the core of their mandates, both are also essential to meeting their broader ambitions in terms of sustainable development worldwide. What opportunities – and risks – is the climate priority posing for the fight against poverty and inequality? Can just, green transitions reinvigorate development agendas? How can international development co-operation policy and finance help? Bringing together the latest evidence, data and insights from governments, academia, international organisations and civil society, the OECD Development Co-operation Report 2024 provides policy makers with concrete ways of delivering on their commitments to improve the lives of billions while fostering green, just transitions around the world.

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Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Release : 2024-07-17
File : 361 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9789264548398