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Birth registration: civil rights and league tables
The Progress of Nations Report, UNICEF, 1998A birth certificate is a child's proof of identity and represents the first acknowledgement of his or her significance to the country. Proof of birth is needed for a number of services, and it offers a degree of legal protection. But too few developing nations take birth registration seriously, and rates vary widely within and between countries.DocumentDualistic sector choice and female labour supply : evidence from formal and informal sectors in Cameroon
Centre for the Study of African Economies, Oxford, 1997In developing countries, labour supply and activity choices are distorted by the existence of labour market imperfections restricting the entry in the activity sectors or rationing the worked hours. The presence of decreasing returns to labour in the informal sector is another specific characteristic of labour market dualism in LDCs.DocumentEthical Trading Initiatives and Forest Dependent People
Ethical Trade and Natural Resources Programme, NRI, 1998Discusses some of the schemes that promote environmentally sustainable trade in forest products and highlights some concerns about their impact on forest dependent people. The trading chains of many forest products, particularly non-timber forest products, are highly complex and people are involved in the marketing of these products in a variety of ways.DocumentAgriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares
OECD Development Centre, 1992The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural policy reforms. It shows that macro and micro reforms need to be closely linked and that both are critical to sectoral performance.DocumentILO Governing Body Document on Child Labour Committee on Employment and Social Policy (GB.264/ESP/1)
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999DocumentChild Labour in commercial agriculture in Africa
International Programme on the Elimination of Child Labour, 1999This paper seeks to review briefly the available evidence on the extent and types of child labour in the commercial agriculture sector in the Africa region. Information and data are included from case-studies carried out on the child labour situation in commercial agriculture in Kenya, Malawi, South Africa, United Republic of Tanzania and Zimbabwe.DocumentWomen's Work and the Household in Latin America. A discussion of the literature
Danish Institute for International Studies, 1999The paper discusses the existing literature on women's work and the household in Latin America. This should be seen in the context of women increasingly entering the labour market in Latin America - as increasing interest among academics for exploring the complexities of the household. One can distinguish between three 'angles' taken by the studies.DocumentEconomic and social components of migration in two regions of Southern Province, Zambia
Centre for Development Studies, Bath University, 1997Paper addresses the migration process in the Zambia's Southern Province. Until recently when droughts and cattle diseases have begun to plague the area, Southern Province was known for its ideal farming conditions.Pages