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  Child labor in Myanmar’s garment sector challenges and recommendations

  Business for Social Responsibility, 2016

  Buyers and investors are back in Yangon looking for opportunities, attracted in part by the country’s low labour costs. However, Myanmar has spent over a decade cut off from Western markets and the compliance culture that has evolved around social and environmental management of supply chains.
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  Occupational health and safety and the poorest

  Women in Informal Employment Globalizing and Organizing, 2011

  This report addresses the role of employment in efforts to reduce poverty in the context of increased globalisation and its impacts on labour markets. Worldwide, countries are experiencing a decline of jobs with secure and lasting contracts and work-related social benefits.
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  The informal economy and decent work: a policy resource guide supporting transitions to formality

  International Labour Organization, 2013

  This is a policy resource guide developed to build the capacities of ILO constituents in approaches that facilitate transitions to formality. Previous work has shown that the move out of informality requires approaches that are targeted, comprehensive and inter-disciplinary.
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  Spotlight on publications: labour market policies in Latin America

  Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2013

  The publications presented in this Spotlight represent some of the key resources dealing with issues related to labour market policies in Latin America. The selected publications focus on the following topics: Gender and Labour; Impact Evaluations; Labour Intermediation Services; Active and Passive Labour Market Policies and Programmes; and Labour Market Regulations and Development.
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  A cautionary note on the interpretation of unit labor costs as an indicator of competitiveness, with reference to the Philippines

  Philippine Institute for Development Studies, 2010

  This note shows that unit labor costs, the most widely used measure of competitiveness, are equivalent to the labor share in output multiplied by a price-adjustment factor.
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  Interventions to Improve the labour market situation of adults with physical and/or sensory disabilities in low- and middle-income countries: a Systematic Review

  The Campbell Collaboration, 2015

  Disability is a development issue, with widespread poverty, inequality and violation of human rights. Recent estimates suggest that more than one billion people are living with some form of disability.
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  Minors not miners: hazardous child labour, with a focus on gold mining in Burkina Faso

  KidsRights Foundation, 2014

  An estimated 115 million children from 5 to 17 years old work in hazardous conditions across the world. The ILO estimates that some 22,000 children are killed at work every year. Those who survive can develop health problems later in life due to poor working conditions while their bodies and minds are still growing and developing.
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  Behind closed doors: child domestic labour, with a focus on the Kamlari system in Nepal

  KidsRights Foundation, 2014

  In 2000, Nepal abolished the Kamaiya system of bonded agricultural labour, where families of the low-status Tharu tribe would be put to work to pay the never-ending interest on historical debts.
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  Not so sweet, hazardous child labour, with a focus on cocoa plantations in Ivory Coast

  KidsRights Foundation, 2014

  Ivory Coast now accounts for 35% of the world’s cocoa production. Around 900,000 farmers grow the bean, and 3.5 million people depend on it for their livelihoods. The most recent data shows that an estimated 819,921 children worked in the 2008/2009 harvest season.
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  Tainted carpets: slavery and child labor in India's hand-made carpet sector

  François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights, 2014

  The issue of child labour in India’s hand-made carpet sector has received extensive attention since the early 1990s. This is in large part due to the fact that India is the largest exporter of hand-made carpets in the world.

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