Ways to be found to ensure continuation of existing social protection of workers. Thirdly, stagnation of employment in the organized sector, educated young people joining the labour market, and the shift of labour from agriculture into rural non-agriculture or the urban informal sector may lead to growth in open unemployment. Ways must be found of expanding formal sector jobs. Fourthly, and perhaps most importantly, the burden of employment generation in the medium term will be essentially on the unorganized sector, where it will have the greatest poverty-reducing impact. Employment generation in the unorganized sector should be accompanied by the introduction of new forms of social protection, so that the poorest and most disadvantaged can protect their one asset - the ability to work.
Social dialogue needs to be encouraged during the process of adjustment.
Business circles are on the whole buoyant, though there are some reservations about the unfair competition that may result from the establishment of multinationals in the country. The trade unions are naturally concerned about possible adverse consequences for workers. Child labour remains a key issue. The Prime Minister tackled this head on in August 1994 when he launched the Prime Minister's Programme for the Elimination of Child Labour, setting up a National Authority on the Elimination of Child Labour under the leadership of the Minister of Labour, with the aim of eliminating child labour in selected sectors by the year 2000. In parallel the Government is taking a number of initiatives towards the universalization of primary education by the year 2000.