Abstract
The background paper maps out the origins of the WEP in the 1960s, the key events of its heydays in the 1970s, and the challenges it faced in the 1980s.
- Title
- The World Employment Programme (WEP); past, present and future : background paper for the 50th anniversary of the launch of the WEP
- Creators
- International Labour Organization.
- Publisher
- ILO; Geneva
- Date published
- 2020
- Number of pages
- 54 p.
- ISBN
- 9789220336731
- Language
- English
- Asset Type
- background paper
- Record Identifier
- 995219283602676
- Table of contents
- Executive summary -- Introduction -- I. Shaping the WEP, reshaping the ILO (1966- 1969) -- II. The ‘Prime Years’ of the WEP: The ILO offensive on development (1969-1976) -- III. The WEP after basic needs: Between consolidation and normalisation (1976- 1981) -- IV. Paradigm lost: The WEP in search of new alternatives (1982-1993) -- V. Conclusion -- Annex: Chronology of main events of the WEP.