Author: Martha R. LowensternPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Urban Unemployment in Colombia
Author: Robert L. SlightonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Manpower policy
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
An analysis is presented of the dimensions and characteristics of urban unemployment in Colombia. About 10 percent to 16 percent of the labor force in the larger cities are unemployed, and unemployment is increasing. It is four to six times greater than it was 15 years ago. The unemployment rate is likely to double within the next 6 to 7 years if Colombia's future rate of growth of output is the same as its historic rate. The urban unemployed are younger than the employed and less educated; however, the relationship between unemployment and education is weak. There is no evidence to suggest that the rising unemployment rate is the result of a large increase in the number of unemployed migrants who have come from the countryside to the cities. Two important conclusions emerge from the study: (1) The urban unemployment problem is sufficiently important to warrant increased effort in the collection of data concerning its magnitude. (2) Urban unemployment is a more serious problem today than it was 3 years ago, and, unless there is a sharp change in the rate and pattern of growth of total output, it will become an even more pressing economic problem in the near future. (Author).
Rural to Urban Drift of the Unemployed in Colombia
Author: Raúl Niño GuerreroPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Migration, Internal
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Globalization and Poverty
Author: Ann HarrisonPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226318001
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Over the past two decades, the percentage of the world’s population living on less than a dollar a day has been cut in half. How much of that improvement is because of—or in spite of—globalization? While anti-globalization activists mount loud critiques and the media report breathlessly on globalization’s perils and promises, economists have largely remained silent, in part because of an entrenched institutional divide between those who study poverty and those who study trade and finance. Globalization and Poverty bridges that gap, bringing together experts on both international trade and poverty to provide a detailed view of the effects of globalization on the poor in developing nations, answering such questions as: Do lower import tariffs improve the lives of the poor? Has increased financial integration led to more or less poverty? How have the poor fared during various currency crises? Does food aid hurt or help the poor? Poverty, the contributors show here, has been used as a popular and convenient catchphrase by parties on both sides of the globalization debate to further their respective arguments. Globalization and Poverty provides the more nuanced understanding necessary to move that debate beyond the slogans.
Colombia
Author: Martha R. LowensternPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 8
Book Description
Unemployment as a Social Problem in Urban Colombia
Author: R. Albert BerryPublisher: London, Canada : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
ISBN:
Category : Colombia
Languages : en
Pages : 92
Book Description
Urban Poor Perceptions of Violence and Exclusion in Colombia
Author: Caroline O. N. MoserPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821347317
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
The crisis in Columbia represents a challenge to the economy, the institutions and the values of its society. Columbia remains plagued by violence despite sustained improvements in its social and economic indicators. The perception of this violence by people living in poor communities is the subject of this report. Local communities identified the pervasive nature of political violence, the problem of displaced persons, and the lack of employment that leads to drug use, crime and violence. Suggested approaches were to create job opportunities; attack the problem of drug use; reduce society's tolerance for intrahousehold violence; rebuild trust in the police and judicial system; strengthen community-based organisations, particularly those run by women; target interventions at young people.
Doing Business 2020
Author: World BankPublisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 1464814414
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Seventeen in a series of annual reports comparing business regulation in 190 economies, Doing Business 2020 measures aspects of regulation affecting 10 areas of everyday business activity.
Urban Growth in Brazil and Colombia
Author: Congressional Urban Growth Study GroupPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
Cali, Colombia
Author: Publisher: World Bank Publications
ISBN: 9780821351741
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 126
Book Description
Annotation The aim of this report is to summarize the analytical work carried out as part of the City Development Strategy (CDS) process and to put forth for further discussion an initial set of recommendations to help the city recover from its present crisis.
Winners and Losers in Colombia's Economic Growth of the 1970s
Author: Miguel UrrutiaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780195204681
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
Examines, through the use of a wide array of statistical data, how Colombia's economic growth during the decade of the 1970s affected the income of its workers.