Abstract In this paper, we question the promotion of financial inclusion, and microfinance specifically, as a means to achieve ‘Decent Work’ (DW) under International Labor Organization’s (ILO) programme. Drawing upon original research findings from two types internal migrants in Cambodia, make twin contention: first, that excessive levels borrowing by garment workers are part-outcome failings D...

Abstract On both normative and pragmatic grounds, I make a case for “decent jobs” over the current discourse around “good jobs.” define decent jobs as ones that reflect sustained worker influence terms conditions of work. Making necessarily entails groups workers capable engaging strategically with firms governments. Where will these come from? Changes in technology, structure production, bound...

130 T he first is that governments and international organisations must address the decent work deficits of those who work informally, since the informal economy, characterized by low productivity , low earnings and high risks, has been growing worldwide, emerging in many new guises and in unexpected places. The second message is one of hope. It is about the new departure in international devel...

We address the design of optimal mechanisms for bargaining problems subject to incomplete information on reservation values. We characterize decent rules, those that are Pareto Optimal in the constrained set of rules satisfying strategy proofness, individual rationality and weak e±ciency a condition on ex-post e±ciency. We prove that for given concave utilities of the agents, the decent rule is...

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has developed a concept of decent work and set this as a standard in 1999. However, in many places in the world people labour under conditions that are far from ‘decent’. Many people are subject to forced labour and experience unfreedoms, which raises important theoretical and practical issues. In this contribution we set out some of the ways in which...

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In this paper we explore the notion that players are “decent” in the sense that their choices are bounded by certain unwritten social rules. We apply this idea to problems of Bankruptcy and Implementation. JEL Classification: D78, D63