Cover -- Half title page -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Who are the authors of The Financial and Economic Crisis: A Decent Work Response? -- Preface -- Executive summary -- CONTENTS -- List of tables, figures and boxes -- Tables -- Table 1 World Economic Outlook -- Table 2 Crisis resolution instruments for selected countries -- Table 3 Monetary policy interest rate changes -- Table 4 Examples of labour market initiatives in response to the crisis -- Table 5 Existing stimulus measures as a percentage of GDP -- Figures -- Figure 1 Monthly change in industrial production (percentage) -- Figure 2 Employment declines in the last twelve months in the G7 (000s) -- Figure 3 Projected increase in vulnerable employment and working poverty (millions, change from 2007 to 2009) -- Figure 4 Social expenditures as a percentage of GDP, most recent year available -- Figure 5 Share of unemployed workers NOT receiving unemployment benefits -- Figure 6 Pension fund returns (real), for selected countries, January-October 2008 (percentages) -- Figure 7 IMF assistance as percentage of GDP -- Figure 8 Fiscal package as a percentage of GDP in 2009 -- Figure 9 Composition of spending as a percentage of total for selected countries -- Figure 10 Comparison between fiscal and financial rescue efforts as a percentage of GDP -- Figure 11 Percentage of lenders tightening standards, by size of enterprise seeking loans -- Figure 12 Estimated employment effects of different fiscal measures -- Figure 13 Household debt and income inequality in some OECD countries, 2005 -- Figure 14 Estimated labour market and social developments, 2009-2010 -- Figure 15 Decomposition of rescue packages -- Figure 16 Recovery from the crisis depends on the timing of efforts -- Boxes -- Box 1 The crisis: causes and transmission mechanisms -- Box 2 Impact of the crisis on women's employment.

Box 3 Unstable food prices and impact on the poor -- Box 4 Aftermath of banking crises and employment recovery after recessions -- Box 5 ILO 's Small Enterprise Development Programme -- Box 6 Enhancing public employment services and active labour market programmes -- Box 7 The ILO's Employment-Intensive Investment Programme -- Box 8 Conditional cash transfers -- Box 9 Relevance of ILO instruments in the crisis context -- Box 10 Lessons from social dialogue in previous crises -- Box 11 Green investments and job creation as a response to the crisis: some examples -- Box 12 Macroeconomic stabilization in the wake of financial/economic crisis -- Introduction -- I. Crisis -- II. International and country responses to the crisis -- III. Decent work as a cornerstone of the recovery: A global jobs pact -- IV. Improving global policy coherence for more balanced growth and development -- V. Assessing the effects of the global jobs pact on the recovery.