This article provides policies for structural unemployment, frictional unemployment and unemployment shifts. The main focus of the paper is on the policies necessary to avoid unemployment shifts. These policies include:
· Direct job creation
· Subsidies to employers
· Self-employment options
In terms of self-employment policies, these policies are directed towards youth, as entrepreneurial skills can be acquired more easily by youth then by adults.

This policy analysis looks at the economic relationships between sectors: where formal and informal sectors are intimately linked in terms of youth and adult workers, where skilled workers and their shortages exist throughout all sectors of the economy, and where downsizing and technical change shed large numbers of unskilled labour to the informal sector.

The paper focuses on two kinds of policy intervention – preventative and curative. A preventative intervention tries to counteract the processes that generate a problem; a curative intervention tries to deal with their consequences. In the case of poverty, for instance, a curative intervention will find out where the poor are and try to alleviate their situation; a preventative intervention will analyze the causes of poverty and devise strategies to prevent it.

This paper explores the problems, prospects and options of unemployed youth in Latin America and the Caribbean. The author describes the employment situation of young people in this region as critical, dynamic and segmented. The author explores the uncertain future in Latin America by looking at the political and socio-economic prospects and the impact of youth unemployment on society.

This USAID literature review explores the role of women in the economy and why the inclusion of gender issues is crucial to the success of economic development programs.