This volume is based on the ILO's International Institute for Labour Studies "Policy Forum on Social Exclusion" (...) organized as part of the project funded by the UNDP and the IILS on "Patterns and causes of social exclusion and the design of policies to promote integration".

Papers presented at the seventh Conference on Tropical Asia, organized by Werkgemeenschap Zuid-Azië in cooperation with Dept. of South and Southeast Asian Studies of the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 1987.