World Employment and Social Outlook 2016 Transforming jobs to end poverty.
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| Language: | English |
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Geneva :
ILO,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Copyright; Preface; Acknowledgements; Table of contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of boxes; Executive summary; Introduction; Part I. Jobs and earnings of the poor; 1. Poverty and the world of work: A global overview of trends; A. Overview of poverty trends; B. Who are the poor and what types of jobs do they have; C. Income sources of the poor ; D. Non-income dimensions of poverty; E. Concluding remarks ; Appendix A. Regional, country and income groupings; Appendix B. Distribution of the poor and non-poor and poverty rates; Appendix C. Income sources of the poor
- Appendix D.  Income sources of the poor by employment statusAppendix E. Change in poverty; Appendix F. Non-income dimensions of poverty; References; 2. Addressing the income gap; Introduction; A. Estimating the income needed to eliminate poverty; B.  Demographic and economic dependency ratios and decent work deficits; C. Mix of policy responses needed to close the income gap; D. Concluding remarks; Appendix A.  Minimum amount to eliminate poverty (total and composition); Appendix B.  Aggregate poverty gaps by country: level and composition (extreme and moderate poverty), 2012
- Appendix C.  Total income gap as a percentage of current public social protection expenditure (various poverty lines, 2012)Appendix D.  Impact of social protection on poverty reduction and prevention, country data; Appendix E.  Social protection or an increase in labour incomes: A simplified case-by-case analysis; Appendix F.  Methodological appendix to estimate the proportion of the gap filled by social protection; Appendix G. National sources: list of household surveys; References; 3. Transforming growth and jobs to reduce poverty ; Introduction; A. Overview of growth and poverty
- B. Transforming jobs for poverty reduction C.  Concluding remarks and links with Part II of the report ; Appendix A. Growth, inequality and poverty; Appendix B. Types of employment and incidence of poverty; References; Part II. Policies to transform jobs and incomes to end poverty; 4. A rights-based approach to poverty reduction; Introduction; A. International labour standards as an enabling mechanism for poverty reduction ; B.  Improving application and enforcement of international labour standards in order to reach the poor ; C. Concluding remarks; References
- 5. The role of decent work in ending poverty in the rural economyIntroduction; A.  Agriculture and the rural economy: Opportunities and challenges for poverty reduction ; B. Reducing poverty through agricultural productivity growth; C.  Alternatives to smallholder agriculture: Off-farm activities and agricultural wage employment; D. Concluding remarks; References; 6. Supporting people and promoting quality jobs ; Introduction; A. Role of social protection in alleviating poverty among those not of working age and those unable to work; B. Supporting people back into employment