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.

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...

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...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Working paper on work migration and development planning in Swaziland - analyses external and internal migration rates, rural migration, and ruralincome growth, refers to rural area development projects, and forms part of a WEP research project. Diagrams, graphs, references and...

ILO pub-WEP pub. Mission report comprising an economic analysis of the impact of rural migration on agricultural development in Swaziland - discusses opportunity cost of men migration from farms and effects on traditional agriculture, etc., refers to the need for a balance between maize...

Argues that achieving the ILO's decent work agenda requires that the conceptualization of employment be given a human face. Giving employment a human face will generate a richer intellectual perspective in which work is rooted in broader objectives than efficiency, and in which human rights and...