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    Technology at work: the future of innovation and employment

    Oxford Martin Programme on the Impacts of Future Technology, 2015
    The 21st century has already brought remarkable technological achievements. The leading corporations of the digital age — including YouTube, Facebook and eBay — barely existed only a decade ago. The Human Genome Project was completed in 2003, the year Skype was first released. The first iPhone was launched in 2007 and in 2010 Google announced their first fully autonomous car.
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    Female wages in the Egyptian textiles and clothing industry: low pay or discrimination?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2011
    Analysis of the wage gap in Egypt has most usually been carried out across the formal sector as a whole, missing nuances of differences in pay in specific occupations. This paper analyses data from a new survey of firms and workers in the Egyptian textiles and clothing sector collected in 2009.
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    The standard of living of garment workers in Cambodia: its determinants and workers’ perception

    Cambodian Institute for Cooperation and Peace, 2009
    The garment industry is one of the largest global industries in the world. Cambodia has become the sixth largest garment exporters in the world (Du, 2007). The garment industry in Cambodia contributes large numbers of employment opportunities and shares the largest part in the manufacturing sector and export (Chan and Sok, 2007b).
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    Estimating workers' bargaining power and firms' markup in India: Implications of reforms and labour regulations

    Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, India, 2014
    Recently, a number of studies have attempted to estimate workers’ bargaining power and firms’ markup simultaneously, by adopting a more direct approach that allows for imperfections in both product and labour markets.
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    Post - 2015 Development Agenda - India National Consultation Report: Trade Unions Constituency

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2013
    This report provides an overview of the Indian National Trade Union Consultation where trade unions presented the views on MDGs and its future course in the post-2015 agenda. The report argues that there is a need for paradigm shift in approach from development to livelihood.
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    India Nepal Knowledge Exchange Visit January 2014

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This report details the exposure visit for Nepal Government Officials to India which was organised by the KPP Management team to share learnings from the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (MGNREGS). The visit  focused on the various steps in implementing MGNREGS and the practical challenges which are faced on ground by the local bodies.
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    Rana Plaza tragedy and beyond: an update on commitments and delivery

    Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2014
    The Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) organised a dialogue entitled Rana Plaza Tragedy and Beyond: An Update on Commitments and Delivery January 2014, Dhaka. This was the second dialogue held under CPD’s Post-Rana Plaza Monitoring Initiative undertaken in partnership with a number of civil society organisations.
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    Southern African Development Community: reaping the benefits of regional economic integration

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    Southern African Development Community (SADC) members signed the Trade Protocol in 1996, however progress in the region to reap the benefits purported to accompany regional economic integration appears limited. Although SADC has adopted a growth and development through trade strategy, indications are that more needs to be done to implement this in a way that yields more positive results.
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    Towards a right to work: the rationale for an employment guarantee in South Africa

    Trade and Industrial Policy Strategies, South Africa, 2011
    What if unemployed people in South Africa had a right – a real right – to a minimum level of regular work on decent terms? In 2005, India passed a law guaranteeing rural households up to 100 days of work a year, at minimum wage rates. Over 55 million households now participate in the programme.
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    Elasticity of substitution between capital and labour in major sectors of the Indian economy

    Institute of Economic Growth, India, 2014
    In developing countries, capital accumulation is often the prime source of economic growth. For rapidly developing countries such as India and china, the growth rate in capital input is commonly well above the growth rate in labour input.

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