Open AccessA Critical Discussion of I.L.O. Report on Employment in Kenya (Review Article)
Author(s) -
David G. Davies
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
pakistan development review
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.154
H-Index - 26
ISSN - 0030-9729
DOI - 10.30541/v12i3pp.283-292
Subject(s) - government (linguistics) , sophistication , variety (cybernetics) , unemployment , political science , action (physics) , economic growth , public administration , public relations , sociology , economics , social science , philosophy , linguistics , physics , quantum mechanics , artificial intelligence , computer science
The recent I.L.O. Report on Employment in Kenya [1] has drawnconsiderable informal acclaim from a variety of sources includingofficials of the Kenya Government and of a number of donor agencies.This acclaim is unquestionably deserved, for the I.L.O. mission and itschiefs, Professors Hans Singer and Richard Jolly, accomplished, in justa few months, the seemingly impossible task of writing a highly readablereport analysing problems in Kenya in terms and at a level ofsophistication acceptable not only to the academic community but todonors and to the Government of Kenya as well. The purpose of this paperis to sound a discordant note and, I hope, a timely one. As this paperis being written, the Government of Kenya is in the process ofconcluding a lengthy and thoughtful analysis of the I.L.O. Report and offormulating a sessional paper on employment which provides not only anofficial response to the report but outlines the Government of Kenya'spolicies toward unemployment as well. Donor agencies, having adopted thereport as near gospel on a number of Kenya's problems, anxiously awaitthe sessional paper and positive action on the part of the Governmentwhich may generate some aid business and, not incidentally, contributeto corrective reforms.