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The Challenge of Youth Employment in Sri LankaSri Lanka has been regarded as a model of a country with successful social policies, yet for decades it has faced major challenges in providing employment and satisfying other aspirations of youth. Although the labor force has become more educated, and this trend is particularly marked for youth, the main source of employment for both youth and adults remains the informal sector. Moreover, the importance of the informal sector as a source of employment has increased since the mid-1990s. On the positive side, unemployment declined in last decades, particularly for youth. The Sri Lankan government has continually acted on various fronts to address the youth unemployment problem. It has tried to improve and modernize Sri Lanka's general education system, which has long been criticized as too academic, and to increase the accessibility of training so as to promote the employability youth leaving school. Other actions included strengthening entrepreneurship programs and introducing career guidance and counseling and improving labor market information to help young people in their job searches and to guide human resource planning. In 2007, the government developed the National Action Plan for youth employment, built, for the first time, on a coherent youth employment policy framework and deriving an encompassing and consistent set of policy recommendations. The plan was based on in-depth analysis of Sri Lanka's labor market, provided via a series of background papers undertaken under the auspices of the Youth Employment Network (YEN). To provide the richness and comprehensiveness of this analysis in its totality, these papers, updated and revised, are collected in the present book. This book offers a wealth of valuable advice to the government and other stakeholders to achieve this goal. By exploiting the full potential of the youth, not only will their talent, aspirations, and energy be harnessed to advance economic growth, but also the existing inequities will be reduced and, hopefully in the longer run, eliminated.
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The Challenge of Youth Employment in
 Sri LankaSri Lanka has been regarded as a model
 of a country with successful social policies, yet for
 decades it has faced major challenges in providing
 employment and satisfying other aspirations of youth.
 Although the labor force has become more educated, and this
 trend is particularly marked for youth, the main source of
 employment for both youth and adults remains the informal
 sector. Moreover, the importance of the informal sector as a
 source of employment has increased since the mid-1990s. On
 the positive side, unemployment declined in last decades,
 particularly for youth. The Sri Lankan government has
 continually acted on various fronts to address the youth
 unemployment problem. It has tried to improve and modernize
 Sri Lanka's general education system, which has long
 been criticized as too academic, and to increase the
 accessibility of training so as to promote the employability
 youth leaving school. Other actions included strengthening
 entrepreneurship programs and introducing career guidance
 and counseling and improving labor market information to
 help young people in their job searches and to guide human
 resource planning. In 2007, the government developed the
 National Action Plan for youth employment, built, for the
 first time, on a coherent youth employment policy framework
 and deriving an encompassing and consistent set of policy
 recommendations. The plan was based on in-depth analysis of
 Sri Lanka's labor market, provided via a series of
 background papers undertaken under the auspices of the Youth
 Employment Network (YEN). To provide the richness and
 comprehensiveness of this analysis in its totality, these
 papers, updated and revised, are collected in the present
 book. This book offers a wealth of valuable advice to the
 government and other stakeholders to achieve this goal. By
 exploiting the full potential of the youth, not only will
 their talent, aspirations, and energy be harnessed to
 advance economic growth, but also the existing inequities
 will be reduced and, hopefully in the longer run, eliminated.
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Bulgaria - Accelerating Bulgaria's Convergence : The Challenge of Rasing Productivity, Volume 1. OverviewThe report aims to assist the Bulgarian
 authorities in identifying options for policies and reforms
 that would help to boost productivity and employment and
 thereby economic growth and income convergence. To achieve
 this, the report looks at Bulgaria's product and labor
 markets, human resource development, and R&D and
 innovation system. The reform options are arranged along a
 time dimension, ranging from short to medium term. The
 implications of the proposed policy options for the
 government's budget are also briefly explored,
 including the utilization of EU grant funds. The report
 concentrates mostly on the supply-side aspects of
 Bulgaria's product and labor markets, its education
 (primary and general secondary, VET, tertiary) delivery, and
 its R&D and innovation system.