l'Argentine

As a result of the economic crisis in Argentina, unemployment became a major problem for the Government of Argentina. The EIIP was invited to present the strategy of employment creation using public investments and to evaluate the appropriateness of the approach in the Argentinian context and how it could complement existing employment programmes and policies. A mission was carried out in December 2003, and concluded that government strategies were shifting from income programmes to employment programmes, but that the latter focused primarily on enterprise promotion, giving little attention to existing markets for these enterprises. An EIIP approach was proposed to create a market for small enterprises in the construction sector.

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