Towards full and decent employment / edited by José Antonio Ocampo and Jomo K.S.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1 Towards Full Employment and Decent Work: An Introduction / Jomo K.S. 1 -- 2 Financial Openness and Employment: The Need for Coherent International and National Policies / Rolph van der Hoeven, Malte Lubker 22 -- 3 Technology and Employment in an Open Underdeveloped Economy / Prabhat Patnaik 54 -- 4 Macroeconomic Policy, Employment, Unemployment and Gender Equality / Diane Elson 70 -- 5 Central Banks as Agents of Employment Creation / Gerald Epstein 92 -- 6 Growth, Employment and Poverty / Azizur Rahman Khan 123 -- 7 Generating Rural Employment in Africa to Fight Poverty / Janvier D. Nkurunziza 158 -- 8 Labour Market Flexibility and Decent Work / Gerry Rodgers 191 -- 9 How Employment and Workers Rights can be Made Complementary / Robert Boyer 207 -- 10 Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory Environment / Martha Alter Chen 234 -- 11 Modernizing the Informal Sector / Victor E. Tokman 255 -- 12 Changing the Paradigm in Social Security: From Fiscal Burden to Investing in People / Michael Cichon, Krzysztof Hagemejer, John Woodall 277 -- 13 Transformative Social Policy / Thandika Mkandawire 305 -- 14 Protecting Workers, Creating Jobs: Rethinking Social Protection in Developing Countries / Carmen Pages 317 -- 15 Transforming the Developmental Welfare States in East Asia / Huck-Ju Kwon 330 -- 16 Labour Inspection for Decent Work and Economic Development / Michael J. Piore, Andrew Schrank 356.