This book demonstrates how rethinking and adapting basic employment services into labor
intermediation services can help address the many labor market disconnections of developing
country economies. It addresses how scarce resources required to escape poverty - good jobs
schools and training - more often go to the privileged and well-connected than to those who
need them most. With jobs now at the top of development debates this is a rare book on how to
practically adapt one key labor market policy to very different developing and emerging country
markets. It shows through examples how developing countries can build in stages from basic
employment services to diverse labor intermediation services - opening up job listings
stimulating public-private partnerships and making job connections for those who don't have a
cousin Vinny who knows a guy. This book is for policy practitioners development organizations
and academics who are ready to think differently about one of the policies that needs to change
so that developing economies can better meet the employment and higher skill challenges of the
global age.
