Abstract:"This issue of Poverty in Focus illuminates the mechanisms behind successes and failures in achieving pro-poor employment policies, including the basic elements of a high growth rate, high employment elasticity of growth, and increased ability of poor women and men to meet the growing labour demand. Not only labour market policies need to focus on employment creation, but also other relevant economic, institutional and social policies." By Dag Ehrenpreis (...)

Keywords:Jobs, policy challenge

Publication Date:24 November 2008

Type/Issue:Policy In Focus/16

ISSN:2318-8995