Abstract
Gary Fields has argued (2007: 5) that
The status of labor market analysis and labor market policy in the development economics community now is similar to the status of poverty analysis and anti-poverty policy two or three decades ago. At the time, the profession knew that it wanted to take on poverty more fully but most in it didn’t know how.
Others might agree that there has indeed been a striking neglect of labour markets within development economics, development studies more broadly, and certainly the policy advice and ‘models’ of poverty reduction among development agencies. His argument implies a turning tide, scope for a much needed expansion of empirical and theoretical work in this field. Sure enough, there has been some activity, much of it reflecting common trends in the intellectual shifts within development economics of late.
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Cramer, C. (2008). From Waging War to Peace Work: Labour and Labour Markets. In: Pugh, M., Cooper, N., Turner, M. (eds) Whose Peace? Critical Perspectives on the Political Economy of Peacebuilding. New Security Challenges Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230228740_8
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