This book explores in-depth the major issues and important aspects of this economic recovery and its potential impact on growth, development, trade and investment. Expert contributors also discuss the global directions in international economic and financial relations, corporate and public...

This book examines the effectiveness of active labour market policies and their contribution to the prevention of social exclusion. The evaluation studies reported in this volume focus on two aspects of active labour market policies that have been relatively neglected in previous research and...

pt. 1. Methodology of labour market policy evaluation -- pt. 2. Evaluating labour market policies in selected target areas -- pt. 3. Evaluating institutional frameworks of labour market policy -- pt. 4. Evaluating policy targets at the European level