WHO/Europe  (May 2018) What are “public health services”? Countries across Europe understand what they are, or what they should include, differently. This study describes the experiences of nine countries, detailing the ways they have opted to organize and finance public health services and train and employ their public health workforce.

ReliefWeb (02.95.2018) The report has been prepared as commissioned by the Government of Madagascar (Ministry of Population, Social protection and Women’s Promotion and the National Office of Risk and Disaster Management) in coordination with the members of the emergency cash group and with UNICEF’s funding and technical support. The results of this report have been presented and discussed with the Government and the members of the emergency cash group.

OECD  (March 2018) Key facts about the risk of job automation in OECD countries

oecd.org (May 2018) Non-standard work is not a marginal phenomenon: one in six workers is self-employed across the OECD on average, and a further one in eight is on a temporary contract. The number of online platform workers, while still small overall, is growing rapidly.

El presente documento es un examen del panorama de la migración internacional en la subregión del Caribe, y es uno de los insumos que la CEPAL entrega como contribución al Pacto Mundial para una migración segura, ordenada y regular (PMM). Junto con una delimitación necesaria de la subregión, se abordan primero los aspectos destacados y tendencias de la migración internacional, con información sobre “stocks” y sobre algunos flujos.

En este documento e analizan las tendencias migratorias de América del Sur en el contexto de distintos factores determinantes y según diversas fuentes de información. Se establecen los grandes patrones migratorios y algunas de sus especificidades, teniendo presente los cambios en las dinámicas migratorias. Se destaca que en los países de esta subregión la protección de los derechos de los migrantes constituye un horizonte normativo que adquiere vigencia y centralidad en la agenda política así como en la institucionalidad migratoria.

OECD (June 2016) This paper was prepared as a contribution to the background report of Panel 4.1 “New Market and New Jobs” of the OECD Ministerial Meeting on the Digital Economy, 21-23 June 2016, Cancún (Mexico). It provides new evidence on the development of online platform markets, discusses opportunities and challenges of new forms of work in platform service markets, developments of non-standard work in OECD countries, and policy issues related to new forms of work.

(Oct 2017) The biennial OECD Digital Economy Outlook examines and documents evolutions and emerging opportunities and challenges in the digital economy. It highlights how OECD countries and partner economies are taking advantage of information and communication technologies (ICTs) and the Internet to meet their public policy objectives.

McKinsey & Company (Oct 2016) The McKinsey Global Institute examines all the ways people are earning income, as well as the challenges independent work presents.

(04.04.2018) The present wave of automation, driven by artificial intelligence (AI) – the development of computer systems able to perform tasks normally requiring human intelligence – is creating a gap between current legislation and new laws necessary for an emerging workplace reality, states a report published today by the International Bar Association Global Employment Institute (IBA GEI).