Employment and technology choice in asian agriculture

By:

Bartsch, William H

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York; Praeger Pub.; 1977Description: 125 pISBN:

275242803

Subject(s):

Agricultural labourers Asia

DDC classification:

331.763 BAR

Summary: This study on the employment effects of agricultural technol ogies and techniques was prepared for the International Labour Office (ILO) within the framework of the World Employment Pro gramme (WEP). The World Employment Programme embodies ILO's main contribution to the international development strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade. The main branches of this program include action-oriented research; technical assistance; and consultancy advice to developing countries through comprehensive and exploratory country missions, regional employment teams for Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and several na tional employment teams. The broad objectives that these instruments of action are de signed to fulfill are (1) stimulation of research on employment and income distribution, (2) reorientation of technical cooperation and aid programs and projects so that they can more effectively contribute to the attainment of employment and income distribution objectives, and (3) promotion, wherever appropriate, of the diffusion of informa tion on employment and income distribution problems so as to gen erate wider support for the objectives of WEP.

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This study on the employment effects of agricultural technol ogies and techniques was prepared for the International Labour Office (ILO) within the framework of the World Employment Pro gramme (WEP).

The World Employment Programme embodies ILO's main contribution to the international development strategy for the Second United Nations Development Decade. The main branches of this program include action-oriented research; technical assistance; and consultancy advice to developing countries through comprehensive and exploratory country missions, regional employment teams for Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and several na tional employment teams.

The broad objectives that these instruments of action are de signed to fulfill are (1) stimulation of research on employment and income distribution, (2) reorientation of technical cooperation and aid programs and projects so that they can more effectively contribute to the attainment of employment and income distribution objectives, and (3) promotion, wherever appropriate, of the diffusion of informa tion on employment and income distribution problems so as to gen erate wider support for the objectives of WEP.

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