these have several advantages over capitalintensive technologies they generate more jobs have lower costs can contribute to local enterprise development and capacitybuilding provide more readily available maintenance and repair services and can generate foreign exchange savings even more worrying is that the ldcs youth population aged years which is becoming better educated and growing fast is increasingly seeking job in rapidly growing urban centres the main responsibility for creating these jobs rests largely with the ldcs themselves nevertheless the international community can also play a role in helping to ease the constraints faced by these countries in creating sufficient jobs