ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on unemployment and the educational system in Tanzania - discusses limited employment opportunities and underemployment of school leavers and university graduates, limited success of educational reforms for self reliance, student attitudes to civic service, the...

Describes education and training institutions and training programmes used in preparing youth for employment. Also provides an overview of the educational and training systems in each country. Includes a literature review on education and productivity.

Examines economic and social factors affecting youth employment in Egypt and describes three national programmes for the promotion of youth employment based on human resources development, direct job creation and support in self-employment and enterprise creation. Describes one public-private...

ILO pub. Article describing the cooperative education training programme carried out by the agricultural cooperative movement in Greece - examines the present situation, relates it to the educational system and evaluates training needs.

ILO pub. Article using examples in East Africa and Southern Africa to illustrate the importance of vocational training in the formal educational system and non-formal training for basic needs self reliance objectives in rural areas - discusses types of training needs, the value of craft training...

Queries whether developing countries really benefit in terms of technology by attracting multinational enterprises through tax advantages and other benefits. Finds, in the case of Argentina, that a significant technology spillover does not occur automatically, but would require domestic...

Explores methods for estimating the impact of child labour on student learning. Considers various measures of child labour and school performance and examines issues in sample design. Demonstrates the type of results that can be obtained with two multi-country data sets and makes suggestions for...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on the impact of international migration on employment in Saudi Arabia and Libyan Arab Jamahiriya - examines the reliance on migrant worker labour supply to meet labour demand resulting from petroleum industry expansion, and considers internal development of human...