Employment and unemployment problems of the near East and South Asia/edited by Ronald G. Ridker and v.2

In 1969 the ILO launched a World Employment Programme to help national authorities to redress this situation by formulating and implementing employment-oriented development strategies. An important aspect of its efforts under the WEP will be to promote research into and awareness of the problems of unemployment and underemployment and possible approaches to their solution.
As a contribution to that aim the present volume brings together various studies recently published in the International Labour Review. Introduced by Professor Waiter Galenson, Consultant to the World Employment Programme, the different contributions on labour force, employment projections, and employment promotion in agriculture, industry, construction and services, cover a wide range of the employment problems characteristic of underdevelopment. In the concluding paper Professor Dudley Seers, Director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, reports on the findings of the first comprehensive inter-agency pilot country study (in Colombia) undertaken within the framework of the WEP.