Preface ............................................................................................................................................. 5
Decent Work in Least Developed Countries ................................................................................... 7
Introduction ................................................................................................................................... 11
Chapter 1: Growth, Employment and Decent Work in the Least Developed Countries ............... 13
Chapter 2: Macroeconomic policies to promote job creation and poverty reduction in LDCs ..... 25
Chapter 3: Harnessing trade for growth, employment and poverty reduction .............................. 33
Chapter 4: What a country produces matters: agriculture, industry and services ......................... 39
Chapter 5: The informal economy and labour market institutions ................................................ 53
Chapter 6: The Role of Public Investment and Public Employment Programmes ....................... 63
Chapter 7: Promoting Catching-up growth and productive transformation in LDCs: A new
approach ........................................................................................................................................ 71
Chapter 8: Social Protection: Investing in People ......................................................................... 85
Chapter 9: Conclusions and policy guidelines .............................................................................. 97
Appendix ....................................................................................................................................... 97
References ................................................................................................................................... 121