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Article: Challenges of unemployment and manpower utilization needs implementation of integrated policy prescription.
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- Economic Review
- Article date:
- May 1, 1994
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The problem of ensuring productive employment of our expanding work-force has emerged as a major challenge facing the country. The issue has acquired urgency both for sustaining long term growth and for eliminating poverty. The present government is deeply committed to the objective of enhancing employment and improving manpower utilization.
Concern about unemployment is worldwide. At the recent summit meeting of the world's top seven industrialized countries in Detroit, this issue received special attention. Currently unemployment rates in the industrialized countries are at the highest level since the Great Depression of the early thirties. In the United States ...