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    Mine workers: working and living conditions

    Sustainable Development Policy Institute, Pakistan, 2001
    Fatal accidents in mines are a routine affair in Pakistan. Every year a large number of miners fall victim either to a collapsing mine or discharge of poisonous gases. The working conditions in mines are so precarious that such deaths fast becoming a norm rather than accidents.
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    The structure and evolution of employment in Egypt: 1998-2012

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2013
    This paper conducts a detailed analysis of the evolution of the employment situation in Egypt over the period from 1998 to 2012, paying special attention to the impact of the economic crisis accompanying the January 25th 2011 revolution. Data from the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey of 2012 is used and compared to the 1998 and 2006 survey rounds.
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    The evolution of labor supply and unemployment in the Egyptian economy: 1988-2012

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    This paper analyses the evolution of labour supply and unemployment in Egypt in the period from 1999 to 2012, focusing on the impact of the demographic phenomenon known as the youth bulge and the impact of the world financial crisis and the marked economic slowdown following the January 25th 2011 revolution.
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    Why the unemployment rate is a misleading indicator of labor market health in Egypt

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014
    This paper argues that unemployment rate is a poor indicator of the cyclical performance of labour market, where it focuses attention on the plight of the well-off, not those who are the most vulnerable to poor labour market conditions.
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    Profits and poverty: the economics of forced labour

    International Labour Organization, 2014
    Today, about 21 million men, women and children are in forced labour, trafficked, held in debt bondage or work in slave-like conditions. This report builds on earlier ILO studies on the extent, cost and profits from forced labour. It looks at both the supply and demand sides of forced labour, and presents solid evidence for a correlation between forced labour and poverty.
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    The impact of an adolescent girls employment program: the EPAG Project in Liberia

    Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 2014
    Fourteen years of civil war in Liberia devastated the country’s infrastructure and institutions, and left a generation of young people with very low levels of education and training.
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    The case against Qatar: host of the FIFA 2022 World Cup

    International Trade Union Confederation, 2014
    140 billion dollars of infrastructure is forecast in order to get Qatar ready to host the 2022 World Cup. Qatar’s own estimates are that 500,000 extra workers - coming from Nepal, India and other South Asian and African countries - will be needed in the run up to The World Cup.
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    Not made by Chidren - a toolkit for understanding the realities, responses and responsibilities of stakeholders in the garment supply chain

    Global March Against Child Labour, 2014
    This Toolkit is designed with the intent to present the conceptual, factual and actual understanding of child labour in a simple, short and systematic manner.
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    Tackling child domestic labour and protecting young domestic workers: a global resource manual

    Global March Against Child Labour, 2014
    The Resource Manual is a comprehensive document on the issue of engagement of children in domestic work that is intended to provide support to organisations ranging from trade unions, child rights organisations and others to take action against child domestic labour and to protect young domestic workers of legal working age.
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    Out-of-school children and child labour

    Global March Against Child Labour, 2014
    As the Education For All (EFA) process is progressing, two main groups of children are still left behind. First, children who have yet to gain access to a good primary school. Second, those who do not get to attend even when a basic primary school is accessible: these are referred to as the 'hard-to-reach children' among the out-of-school children.

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