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Preface

Acknowledgements

1. Introduction

2. Trade flows and labour markets during the crisis: 
    What global data tells us.

2.1 Trade, employment and transmission
      of economic crises

2.2 Global trade and price trends during
      the crisis

2.3 Global employment and wage trends
      during the crisis

3. The impact of the crisis at the country level and
    trade as a transmission channel

3.1 Introduction to the ILO's country-level work
      on the crisis: What, where and how?

3.2 Ukraine: The role of export concentration

3.3 Liberia and Uganda: Interaction between global
      food and commodity price inflation in 2007/08
      and the global economic crisis of 2008/09 

3.4 India and South Africa: Secondary effects
      of the trade shock

3.5 Brazil: Distributional effects of trade
      during the crisis

3.6 Egypt: Gender impact of trade during
      the crisis

4. Policy responses .

4.1 Trade policy and trade finance

4.2 Sectoral and company-specific
      stimulus programmes

4.3 Cross-sectoral measures

4.4 Policy conclusions

5. Conclusions.

Annex 1: Description of variables in cross-country
               data on crisis impact and potential
               transmission channels 

Annex 2: Selected countries, exports by major
               product group, 2008

Annex 3: Description of the model and data
               used for the South Africa and India study

 
Annex 4: Detailed results of the modelling
               exercise for India

Annex 5: Detailed results of the modelling
               exercise for South Africa

Annex 6: Description of the STAGE_LAB model
               and SAM used for the Brazil study 158

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