Examines potential markets for "private training" or training services offered on a commercial basis. Discusses the role that private sector actors can play through Business Development Services (BDS).

Examines the effects of awareness-raising programmes at different levels of education on the promotion of self-employment and entrepreneurship as career options for young people entering the labour market. Provides examples of programmes in developed, developing and transition countries,...

Identifies challenges facing vocational education and training schemes and suggests criteria for setting up successful enterprise-based schemes. Investigates good practices in developed and developing countries and makes recommendations for the use of enterprise-based schemes in the promotion of...

Comprises short descriptions of 166 current and recently completed programmes for entrepreneurship education. Covers programmes in secondary schools, technical and vocation education and universities as well as programmes outside formal education. Includes descriptions of training packages...

Analyses linkages between skills and productivity for improving existing work in the informal economy and for enabling the transition of informal activities to the formal economy. Examines issues and challenges related to skills and productivity in the context of the informal economy, presents a...

Explores how finance and business development services for micro and small enterprises can be linked without jeopardizing the effectiveness of each service. Reviews examples of linked provision, examines the main costs and benefits for the actors involved and proposes a six-part typology of...

Examines how the qualitative aspects of employment in small enterprises can be improved. Investigates the relationships between job quality and enterprise size and describes practical experiences in the areas of: increasing training and knowledge for workers in small enterprises; integrating...

Summarises international legal instruments and policy initiatives concerning the right to work of persons with disabilities and outlines the options available for those who wish to work in open/competitive employment, sheltered employment, supported employment and social enterprises. Examines...