Education and health are also important sectors of employment for women.

Business services are among the most dynamic service sectors. In the OECD, they have been the fastest growing sectors in terms of employment since 1980.

Both the manufacturing and construction sectors lost their importance as major sources of employment and income.

The natural resource industries that globalization promotes have limited capacity to absorb employment out of traditional sectors.

Unlike the international financial services, tourism is an important source of employment and revenue, and contributes to a host of other sectors, such as the construction and retail sales sectors.

Similarly, investment in infrastructure would directly add employment and improve competitiveness and efficiency in a wide range of sectors.

The panellist from Jamaica emphasized the importance of employment creation by TNCs in the major sectors of the Jamaican economy.

However, these three sectors functioned as the economy's shock absorber and managed to provide employment at the time of crisis.

Such investments would drive a decisive shift from low productivity to higher productivity sectors, boosting employment and wages.

Investment in employment intensive sectors, such as agriculture, was needed in order to reduce rural poverty and marginalization.

The ILO employment and social protection sectors developed a joint proposal for the agenda of the ninety sixth session (2007) of the International Labour Conference on the theme Employment and social protection in ageing societies .

(c) Respect for the equal right of women to work and their reintegration into employment in all sectors and at all levels of Afghan society

If the fruit of economic growth reaches the poor through employment creation, growth in capital intensive sectors has a limited effect on poverty reduction.

Noting also that the globalization process has had some benefits by providing opportunities for wage employment for rural women in new sectors,

Noting also that the globalization process has had some benefits by providing opportunities for wage employment for rural women in new sectors,

On the other hand, in the short and medium run, it would also lead to shifts in output and employment in key sectors in developing countries, resulting in job losses in some sectors and revenue loss.

With regard to employment, the European Union strove to achieve equal treatment of women and men in relation to access to employment and education, working conditions and access to decision making posts in the public and private sectors.

The five largest sectors of employment in California are trade, transportation, and utilities government professional and business services education and health services and leisure and hospitality.

The Committee is concerned about lack of efforts to assess the impact of laws and policies on women's equality in such sectors as decision making, education, employment and health.

(ii) Supporting fully the equal right of women to work and strengthening efforts to promote their reintegration in employment in all sectors and at all levels of Afghan society

These steps included allowing some self employment in certain retail and light manufacturing sectors, the legalization of the use of the US dollar in business, and the encouragement of tourism.

It is therefore of paramount importance for the PA not only to target employment generation schemes to the sectors that are able to absorb the shock of the labour released from the Israeli market, but also to design appropriate programmes to increase productivity in these sectors.

This will enable the Department for the Coordination of Emancipation Policy at the Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment to compare women's access to senior positions in different sectors of the labour market, and to draw conclusions on the relative impermeability of the glass ceilings in these sectors.

While this is just one part of a much more complex story, it seems unlikely that these and other non tradable sectors can sustain employment growth in the future.

Furthermore, in both the private and public sectors, women had taken on greater responsibilities and policies to promote women's employment and participation would continue to be implemented.

Genuine and equitable growth could be achieved by ensuring that the benefits of development programmes reached even marginalized sectors, promoting decent and productive employment and making for a truly inclusive society.

It has also put more emphasis on ensuring that employment and decent work goals are incorporated in both the formal and informal sectors and in poverty reduction strategies.

Because the profession was illegal for many years and the situation was merely tolerated, employment relationships in the prostitution sector have developed differently from those in other sectors.

Long term policy should include an evolving assessment of competitive strength and employment potential across sectors and at all levels of human capital, with the goal of encouraging market outcomes that achieve social objectives.

The Syrian strategy on the employment of youth is going to be managed and implemented at all stages through community interaction, including partners from all sectors the public, private and civil society.

In Germany, legislation came into force that provided incentives for job retention for workers with disabilities, while Japan established quotas for their employment in the public and private sectors.

The international community must support efforts to replace the vicious circle of underdevelopment, unemployment and violence with a virtuous circle of peace, development and productive employment and to make economic sectors benefit the working poor.

The informal sector plays a significant role in African economies since it offers the means for many people to cope with the severe lack of employment opportunities in the public and formal private sectors.

Sectors

Within the context of globalization, macroeconomic policies, including those related to economic stability, external debt, taxation, investment, employment and markets, have a direct influence on the livelihoods of rural women, in both the formal and informal sectors.

Targeting of sectors will decline.

Moreover, the extremes of collapse were amplified by unnecessarily tight monetary policies which deepened the debt deflation process, served to depress output and employment and caused serious dislocations in the corporate and financial sectors (Stiglitz, 2002).

In contrast, the agricultural and services sectors, and to a lesser extent commerce, became major sources of employment. Services, agriculture and commerce and hotels all registered increases in their contribution to GDP over the same period.

The characteristic of services as inputs to other sectors of the economy is clearly demonstrated in these sectors.

Benefits have included increased opportunities for off farm activities, including wage employment in non agricultural sectors, and enhanced opportunities for participation in local decision making and networking, including through information and communication technologies.

Affected sectors

Other sectors

In 1998 The National Development Planning Agencies established a gender mainstreaming Working Group on Policy and Program Planning which focuses on five development sectors namely employment, education, justice, agriculture, cooperatives SMEs In 2000 the Working Group expanded its mandate to incorporate four additional sectors namely health, family planning, social welfare and environment.

On the technology side, labor saving innovations in network based information processing and transactions automation have helped to drive a wedge between growth and employment generation in both the tradable and non tradable sectors.

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