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Labor-management arbitration is rarely used in other countries. Surprisingly, one exception is Cambodia, which, with the assistance of the International Labour Organization (ILO), implemented an impressive workplace rights program in 2002 that included collective bargaining and arbitration to resolve disputes. Cambodia has suffered from centuries of conflict and it has only recently left its chaotic past behind. Cambodia remains a largely subsistence agricultural economy still recovering from multiple eras of oppression and violence. But it has also finally achieved some measure of peace and stability as increasing expansion of apparel assembly in Southeast Asia made it a natural locus for factories looking to benefit from the expanding opportunities afforded by globalization and libera...
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IN 1983, the British Labour Party under the hard-left Michael Foot issued a 700-page manifesto so radical that one colleague called it "the longest suicide note in history." House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has just released a recklessly bold, 73- page, 10-year budget plan. At 37 footnotes, it might be the most annotated suicide note in history. That depends on whether (a) President Barack Obama counters with a deficit-reduction plan of equal seriousness, rather than just demagoguing the Ryan plan till next Election Day, (b) there are any Republicans beyond the measured, super-wonky Ryan who can explain and defend a plan of such daunting scope and complexity, and (c) Americans are serious people.
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Employment regulations are needed to allow efficient contracting between employers and workers and to protect workers from discriminatory or unfair treatment by employers. In its indicators on , Doing Business measures flexibility in the regulation of hiring, working hours and dismissal in a manner consistent with the conventions of the International Labour Organization (ILO). An economy can have the most flexible labor regulations as measured by Doing Business while ratifying and complying with all conventions directly relevant to the factors measured by Doing Business4 and with the ILO core labor standards. No economy can achieve a better score by failing to comply with these conventions. In Africa, Uganda (in 2006), Mozambique (in 2007) and Burkina Faso (in 2008) ena...
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LONDON, September 30, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The nonfarm payroll report for September 2011 is released on Friday 7th October. This monthly report, a comprehensive overview of the US labour market, is one of the most influential economic indicators in the American markets. Traditionally, its release is quickly followed by volatility and spikes in major markets.
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The study uses the linear AIDS technique to analyse how consumers of cassava food products in the Lagos metropolitan area react to economic and demographic factors and how consumer reactions can be captured to bring about effective policy formulation for food security and poverty alleviation through value added agricultural production. The results establish that demographic factors such as religion and residential area help to explain perceived variations in the consumption of cassava food products. Given that demand is price-inelastic for all cassava food products examined in the study, declining prices stemming from a bumper cassava crop harvest would lead to corresponding declines in producer revenues. In view of the high expenditure elasticities, therefore, a policy option that woul...
... would be one that saps off excess farm labour through a comprehensive skills development strateg...
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LONDON -- Nick Clegg proved he wasn't a one-hit wonder in Britain's second election debate Thursday, holding his own against Labour's Prime Minister Gordon Brown and the Conservatives' David Cameron over thorny issues such as Afghanistan, the Catholic sex abuse scandal and the special relationship with the United States. An initial poll gave Clegg a slight edge in the debate, but it appeared to be close to a three-way tie. Still, Clegg managed to keep some of his political stardust -- respondents said the Liberal Democrats' 43-year-old leader seemed the most honest.
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MIA AMOR Mottley was called to the Bar at age 21. She is articulate and has a sharp mind that is kept active partly by her disciplined approach to reading, even one paragraph a day. Mottley has served the Barbados Labour Party (BLP) in several capacities since entering politics at age 29. She has held key Cabinet positions and is the visionary behind her country's Education sector Enhancement Programme (Edutech), A programme designed to increase the number of young people contributing to the island's sustainable social and economic development. The former deputy prime minister became leader of the opposition in Barbados after her party's January defeat at the polls. The US election campaign is now in full force. Of the three candidates, who do you think best represents the Caribbean's i...
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Recent research has highlighted ways in which the labour market behaviour of artists differs from the predictions of conventional theory. This paper considers one particular aspect of artists' labour supply, i.e. the extent to which preferred time allocations to creative work can be realised, given the multiple job-holding and other characteristics of artists' working arrangements. It is suggested that greater financial security and the accumulation of human capital are likely to be associated with increased ability to achieve equilibrium between desired and actual labour supply to the market for creative work. These propositions are tested empirically using data from a recent survey of practising professional artists in Australia.
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In recent estimates, the International Labour Organization (ILO) found that approximately 217.7 million children ages five to seventeen are engaged in labor around the world. Within Asia and the Pacific alone, 122.3 million children between five and fourteen are economically active. Child labor has not escaped the attention of policymakers around the globe. Within India itself, the Bonded Labour System Act abolished all forms of bonded labor in 1976. The practice of bonded labor was methodically defined, taking into consideration multiple forms of agreements binding a debtor in service to a creditor. Progress toward eliminating child labor continues to be made on a global scale. A 2006 report by the ILO noted that the total number of child laborers worldwide fell 11% over the last four ...
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Hmm, I already live in a country like that. Better tell the truth: I'm going to Monaco to do a profile of Prince Albert for the London Observer, and to enjoy the Mediterranean sunshine. Maybe I'll gamble a bit at the Casino and, after that, run off for some good, American, home-style cookin' at Kate Taylor's "Stars 'n' Bars" restaurant in Monte Carlo. Kate is an old friend of mine from Houston, Texas, who's lived in Monaco for years. She is not, let's say, one of the "underprivileged" that Mrs. Barbara Bush recently described when talking about the thousands of New Orleans evacuees washed up in Houston. Kate, unlike Mrs. Bush, has a big heart. I'll also be in London on this trip, where the poverty rate now equals our own. Something like one in five Britons currently lives "under t...
...'s anything "socialist" about Tony Blair's Labour government, no one in England has noticed it for a...
