Contents -- Preface -- Decent Work in Least Developed Countries -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Growth, Employment and Decent Work in the LeastDeveloped Countries -- 1.1 The broad pattern of growth, employment, and decent work in LDCs -- 1.2 GDP Growth -- Figures -- Figure 1.1 GDP per capita of LDCs -- Figure 1.2 Real GDP Growth in LDCs, 1999‐2011p -- Figure 1.3 GDP Growth in LDCs and Evolution of Commodity Price Index -- Figure 1.4 GDP growth (average anuual growth, 2000‐2008) and per capita income (2008) in LDCs -- Tables -- Table 1.1 Annual real GDP growth rates, 2000‐2011p -- Table 1.2 Merchandise exports in LDCs, 2000‐2009 -- Table 1.3 Unemployment rate by sex and for youth and adults (%) -- Table 1.4 Employment in major economic sectors (%) -- Table 1.5 Working Poor indicators (US 1.25 a day) -- Table 1.6 Status in Employment -- Table 1.7 Vulnerable Employment Shares by Sex -- Table 1.8 Summary of the Productive‐Employment Target for the LDCs as a whole -- Chapter 2: Macroeconomic policies to promote job creation and povertyreduction in LDCs -- Introduction -- The standard macroeconomic framework and its contested role in the LDC growth revivalof the 2000s -- Aligning macroeconomic policies with the twin goals of job creation and poverty reductionin LDCs: some suggestions -- Boxes -- Box 2.1: Financing the MDGs and the SPF -- Box 2.2: The relationship between debt relief and fiscal space in LDCs -- Box 2.3: The exchange rate regime and its implications for growth and employment inMalawi -- Figures -- Figure 2.1 -- Figure 2.2 -- Figure 2.3 -- Figure 2.4 -- Figure 2.5 -- Chapter 3: Harnessing trade for growth, employment and povertyreduction -- Figures -- Figure 3.1: Average Annual Export Growth vs. Share of Mining in Total Exports -- Tables -- Table 3.1: Export concentration in LDCs.

Chapter 4: What a country produces matters: agriculture, industry andservices -- Tables -- Table 4.1 Economic growth and share of manufacturing in GDP in LDCs fulfilling the criteria of noviolent conflict in past ten years and an average CPIA score of 3.4 or above in the past four years. -- Chapter 5: The informal economy and labour market institutions -- Figures -- Figure 5.1 Employment in the informal economy as percentage of total employment (includingagriculture) -- Figure 5.2 Distribution of employment by status and informal/type of employment in selected Africancountries (percentage of total non‐agricultural employment/total employment) -- Figure 5.3 Mozambique: Distribution of employmentalong the scale of informality, by sex (percentage ofpersons in employment) -- Figure 5.4 Zambia: Distribution of employment alongthe scale of informality, by sex (percentage of personsin employment) -- Figure 5.5: Perceptions of constraints among enterprises in South Asia and sub‐Saharan Africa -- Figure 5.6: Percentage of firms in LDCs reporting labour market regulations as a major constraint -- Figure 5.7: Minimum wages in LDCs, monthly minimum wage in PPP -- Figure 5.8: Decent work strategies for the informal economy -- Chapter 6: The Role of Public Investment and Public EmploymentProgrammes -- Tables -- Table 6.1 Africa's infrastructure deficit -- Boxes -- Box 6.1. Ghana -- Chapter 7: Promoting Catchingupgrowth and productivetransformation in LDCs: A new approach -- Figures -- Figure 7.1: Development of Educational Structures in Korea -- Figure 7.2: Development of Educational Structures in Costa Rica -- Figure 7.3: Development of Educational Structures in China -- Figure 7.4: Educational structures -- Figure: 7.5 Educational structures -- Figure 7.8 Diversification in manufacturing by product categories.

Figure 7.9: Composition of staff working in enterprises, selected sectors -- Figure 7.10 Type of skills provided in apprenticeship -- Tables -- Table 7.1: Characteristics of the Different Country Groups -- Table 7.2: Educational Structure and Option Space for Productive and Educational Transformation -- Chapter 8: Social Protection: Investing in People -- Figures -- Figure 8.1: Effective social security coverage in LDCs and former LDCs -- Figure 8.2: Total health expenditure and sources of financing, 2008 -- Figure 8.3 Summary of impact assessments of existing social transfer schemes in 30 countries -- Figure 8.4 The social security staircase -- Box Figure B1: Health expenditure and health system indicators in Rwanda -- Boxes -- Box 8.1: Extension of social security coverage in Cape Verde -- Box 8.2: Extending health insurance coverage in Rwanda -- Box 8.3: The universal social pension in Nepal -- Box 8.4: Extending social security coverage in Timor Leste -- Tables -- Table 8.1 Social pension programmes in selected LDCs and former LDCs -- Chapter 9: Conclusions and policy guidelines -- Appendix -- Tables -- Appendix Table A1 Annual growth rate by sectors, period average -- Appendix Table A2 Structure of Merchandise exports in LDCs, 2000 and. 2008/9 -- Appendix Table A3 Capital inflows in LDCs by regions (% of GDP) -- Appendix Table A4 Poverty Rate (US 1.25 a day) -- Appendix Table A5 Output per Worker (constant 2000 US) -- Appendix Table A6 -- Appendix Table A7 -- Appendix Table A8 Development of agricultural production in LDCs -- Appendix Table A9 Agricultural output in LDCs -- Appendix Table A10 Selected inputs in agriculture -- References.