Strategies for improving the labour - absorptive capacity of the private and informal sectors in Ethiopia
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1992-07Author(s)/Corporate Author (s)
Girma Hunde;United Nations. Economic and Social Council;
United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Public Administration, Human Resources, and Social Development Division;
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The subject of appropriate training programs designed to correct skill imbalances in Ethiopia is a very difficult one to deal with. Firstly, very little research on training skills has been carried out, either by industry or by the manpower planning agencies, and consequently it is difficult to determine whether imbalances exist or not or to what extent they exist. There is ample data on required manpower by industry and on the kind of skills taught and the number of students trained by the vocational and technical schools and by institutes of higher learning. But one suspects that the requests for trained manpower from industry are largely based on hunches, every year the data changes. If one looks at the data on graduates of vocational and technical schools over the last five years and the potential vacancies available, one could be forgiven for concluding that the data coming from industry changes as the personnel managers change. therefore, the writer has chosen to concentrate on what should be done to solve this problem of an apparent skill imbalance in Ethiopia. This paper is not based on empirical research but rather reflects the writer's opinions which are based on experience.
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“Girma Hunde; United Nations. Economic and Social Council; United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa. Public Administration, Human Resources, and Social Development Division (1992-07). Strategies for improving the labour - absorptive capacity of the private and informal sectors in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa:. © UN. ECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/38797”Collections
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