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Carla Henry is a development economist who has worked for the ILO since 2002. Her current research interests include vulnerable groups in economic transformation, the role of agricultural work in development, and labour rights in agriculture. Prior to joining the Research Department in 2016, she was the ILO’s senior evaluation officer.
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This paper considers the rapid demographic ageing trend experienced in many middle-income countries and examines how the dimensions of these demographic shifts can be combined with other dimensions related to employment, retirement and social protection in order to classify countries according to their level of preparedness to secure adequate incom...
Mexico is facing an ageing population, with those over the age of 65 set to constitute an increasing share
of the population in the twenty-first century. Yet, the extent of the economic dependency that Mexico
may encounter is unclear. This paper profiles various work-related dimensions of Mexico’s ageing
women and men and explores implications of e...
The aim of this paper is to contribute to an understanding of the decisions of the near old and older Chinese to work, and how work characteristics vary across genders, localities, and within overall income and security situations as ageing advances. The results of this analysis suggest that the decision to work and the amount of work among older p...
This paper summarizes information from a synthesis of research conducted on sexual violence and harassment in four commercial agriculture contexts; one in Africa, one in Asia, and two in Latin America.
The studies indicate that non-standard forms of work, including temporary work and informal work, are key factors in creating power differentials fo...
In many agro-food supply chains, certification has become an important means of reinforcing adherence to standards on process quality and acceptability, including the acceptability of labour practices across the supply chain, and communicating this to buyers and end consumers. Certification is a procedure by which a third party gives written assura...
Many development projects seek to reach the poorest in the provision of agricultural inputs, extension, credit, education, and many other services. However, low-cost and reliable methods for assessing whether a project reaches the poor are lacking at present. In this paper, we present an operational method that was designed during a two-year resear...
Development institutions and projects frequently seek to target poorer segments of the population. Yet, existing methods for evaluating their outreach are generally unsuited to most operational settings, since they are either too costly and cumbersome (e.g., detailed income or household surveys), or they produce results that are not comparable betw...
Development institutions and projects frequently seek to target poorer segments of the population. Yet, existing methods for evaluating their outreach are generally unsuited to most operational settings, since they are either too costly and cumbersome (e.g., detailed income or household surveys), or they produce results that are not comparable betw...
The question raised in the title is an important one to the microfinance sector, especially since the Microcredit Summit held in Washington, DC, in 1997. In order to gain more transparency on the depth of poverty outreach, the Consultative Group to Assist the Poorest (CGAP) supported research at IFPRI during 1999 and 2000 to design and test a simpl...
Thesis (M.S.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Agricultural Economics, 1988. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 181-182). Microfilm.
