Description
Employment Generation Schemes directs attention to challenges and opportunities of enacting direct job creation policies in developing countries and BRICS, including: China, Ghana, Argentina, and India. This exciting new volume investigates how the Job Guarantee might interface with other policy goals.
Table of Contents
Introduction; Michael J. Murray and Mathew Forstater 1. Green Jobs for Full Employment, a Stock Flow Consistent Analysis; Antoine Godin 2. Ningxia's Ecological Immigration Program: What It can borrow from an ELR Green Jobs Program; Josefina Y. Li 3. Beyond Full Employment: What Argentina's Plan Jefes Can Teach Us About the Employer of Last Resort; Pavlina R. Tcherneva 4. Employment Generation Schemes and Long Term Development - a Case Study in India; Poulomi Dasgupta 5. The State, Employer of Last Resort, and Youth Employment: A Case Study of the National Youth Employment Programme in Ghana; Richard B. Dadzie 6. Neighborhood Unemployment Councils and the Importance of Grassroots Support for the Policy Success of the Job Guarantee; Mathew Forstater 7. Bring Back the WPA: Lessons from the Job Creation Programs of the 1930s; Nancy Rose
