Te report has been prepared by staf of the International Institute for

Labour Studies and is published under the responsibility of its Director.

Chapter authors are:

c  Editorial: Raymond Torres

c  Steven Tobin and Verónica Escudero (Chapter 1)

c  Sameer Khatiwada (Chapter 2)

c  Ekkehard Ernst, Matthieu Charpe and Uma Rani (Chapter 3)

c  Anne Posthuma and Raymond Torres (Chapter 4)

c  Ekkehard Ernst (Chapter 5)

Raymond Torres edited and coordinated the Report.

Te International Institute for Labour Studies was established

by the International Labour Organization in 1960 as an autonomous centre  

for advanced studies in the social and labour feld.