This study, prepared for the United Nations World Social Summit by the World Institute for Development Economics Research, comprises a wide-ranging set of investigations into the rapidly changing situation in the North, the new market economies of Eastern Europe and the increasingly heterogeneous economics of the South. Economists and other social scientists explore what the complex tendencies in the global economy mean for the changing nature of work and rising levels of joblessness, and the issues and policies being thrown up in response to new structural trends.

Foreword by: Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo