Strategies for Improved Social protection in Asia: Labor Market Policies. Part B - Project and Program Issues

The paper offers general guidelines for analyzing labor markets and for selecting and implementing projects that are intended to improve labor market operations. The guidelines proceed through four stages: (i) Consideration of regional aspects. (ii) A country situation analysis, covering the relevant data and information that are necessary to reach an informed judgment about the state of the labor market. (iii) A country policy analysis, used to generate the policy prescriptions needed to over-come the problems identified through the situation analysis, and (iv) The design and implementation of projects, covering the lending instruments that are available, pro-ject timeframes, lending conditionalities, project management and control, and mon-itoring and evaluation.