...Smriti Prasad; Manesh Choubey Purpose Our paper empirically evaluates the impact of livelihood training programmes on entrepreneurial skills of the women Self-Help Group (SHG) members. Design/methodology/approach The study is based on primary data collected from a sample of 416 SHG women...

...Ali Ahmed Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether education and training affect pro‐social behavior. Economics students are often accused of being less pro‐social. The explanations given are that less pro‐social people choose to study economics or that economics studies...

... devised with emphasis on community education, training, health care, water supply, sanitation, income generation, tree plantation and conservation (with special regard to fuel for cooking), disaster mitigation, cultural activities, research, awareness generation, and local government institutions...

...John Mangan; John Johnston High rates of youth unemployment, worldwide, have led governments to advocate a range of policies designed to increase job offers to young workers. For example, the Australian Government is currently introducing a system of “training wages” which will see effective youth...

...Robert L. Gustavson Examines the Kansas job opportunities and basic skills programme to analyse why education and training programmes fail to reduce poverty and promote self‐reliance for programme participants. Uses profit model analysis to examine the effect of the Kansas job opportunities...

... which need to be addressed and policy changes required(reduction of the military‐ industrial complex, certain govern‐ment training programmes), before concluding that the private sector would be able to produce more effective change and be capable of managing transition. © MCB UP Limited 1994...