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Employment is a key link between economic growth and poverty reduction. Productive and remunerative employment can help ensure that poor people share in the benefits of economic growth. Employment is not only a means of livelihood, but it is also a tool for participation; productive and remunerative employment can enhance self-respect and human dignity.

UNDP activities promoting employment for poverty reduction are mostly carried out under a Joint ILO-UNDP Programme on Employment for Poverty Reduction. The activities concentrate on:

analytical work on different issues of the employment-economic growth-poverty reduction nexus;
country studies on integrating employment strategies in the macroeconomic policy framework;
support to countries developing overall employment strategies, and
help disseminating knowledge within and across regions through synthesis papers.

Resources

Phasing-out of MFA and the employment Implications (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Sri Lanka). By Christoph Ernst, Alfons Hernández Ferrer and Daan Zult, 2005.

Human Rights-Based Approach to Poverty Reduction – Analytical Linkages, Practical Work and UNDP, by Selim Jahan.

Growth, Employment and Poverty: An Analysis of the Vital Nexus Based on Some Recent UNDP and ILO/SIDA Studies. Paper prepared under the joint ILO-UNDP programme on Promoting Employment for Poverty Reduction, by Azizur Rahman Khan.

Exploring the Employment Nexus: Topics in Employment and Poverty, by S. R. Osmani, A report prepared for the Task Force on the Joint ILO-UNDP Programme on Employment and Poverty, May 2002.

The Employment Nexus between Growth and Poverty: An Asian Perspective, S. R. Osmani, University of Ulster, U.K., A Report prepared for SIDA and UNDP, March 2004.

Investment for Poverty Reducing Employment in Africa: Review of case studies and an analytical framework, by Carlos Oya & John Weeks, Report to the UNDP and ILO, May 2004.

Reorienting Development: Towards an Engendered Employment Strategy, by Selim Jahan UNDP, 2004.

Employment Policies for Sustainable Development: The Experience of Ghana, by William Baah-Boateng, University of Ghana, Presented at a national workshop on an employment framework for Ghana’s Poverty Reduction Strategy, organised by the Government of Ghana/UNDP/ILO, May 2004

Elements of an Employment Framework for Poverty Reduction in Ghana, Report of a joint ILO/UNDP mission, Prepared by James Heintz, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, July 2004

Learn more about the: UNDP-ILO Joint Programme on Employment and Poverty. Also see the ILO Employment and Poverty Website.

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