Active Programmes for Employment Promotion (RESUME)

Elza Kusrashvili

The work deals with active employment programmes that are viewed as the most important tool for solving one of the most poignant problems of the modern world – unemployment.

The world already has the rich experience of using such programmes as political method for compensating problems of market in this sphere. The problem is equally actual for the developed world as well as for the developing one. The work provides data on amounts spent for active employment programmes in the countries of “Economic Development and Co-operation Organisation” (OECD) in 1985-1996 (percentagewise towards GDP). The work also describes priority developments of the programmes. Besides, it mentions the role of the World Bank in the implementation of employment projects in accordance with regions. It also considers the activities of the Single State Fund of Georgia (it was formed for realising both active and passive employment policies in the country) in 1997-2001 and draws definite conclusions. The existing programmes in the world can really play a particular role in reducing employment in the country provided they are implemented reasonably with the consideration of general economic situation in the country as well as exact aims of their implementation and possible consequences.