ABSTRACT
The opening chapters of this book reviewed the legal standards that limit working hours and the hours actually worked in countries across the world, highlighting the situation in developing countries. The subsequent chapters added detail to this broad picture by considering two of the forces shaping working hours in developing countries, tertiarization and informalization, and examining working time developments through the lenses of gender and age. This chapter adds to the preceding analysis by looking at the response to working time developments found in the social and economic policies of developing countries. In doing so, it attempts to highlight the broad themes of these policies and to explore the forces that underlie them and influence the likelihood of their success.
