What is it about?
This article is about what international governmental organisations, like the World Bank, International Labour Organisation, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, are saying and doing about youth unemployment. It looks at key policy documents over a number of years and distils and analyses how their perspectives, policy proposals and programmes compare - and differ.
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Why is it important?
International governmental organisations are important actors in the social policy making process. They shape the policies of governments and non-governmental organisations. What IGOs are saying and doing about youth unemployment matters if we are to comprehensively understand the pressures and opportunities facing governments to address, and reduce, youth unemployment and its long-term 'scarring effects' on young people's life chances.
Perspectives
There is little research about how policies and practices shaping youth unemployment in countries may be conditioned by what is being said and done by global policy organisations. Research-based policy analysis tends to focus on what different national governments are doing and how these compare with one another. The findings of this research reveal some interesting comparisons and differences between the IGOs we looked at. One conclusion we draw is that there are different policy approaches floating about within and between international organisations, and that these organisations' policies change over time. There is no 'fixed' approach to youth unemployment either nationally or transnationally.
Nicola Yeates
Open University
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This page is a summary of: International governmental organisations and global youth unemployment: the normative and ideational foundations of policy discourses, Policy & Politics, July 2014, Policy Press,
DOI: 10.1332/030557312x655648.
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