during the crisis of the regions countries built up experience with labourmarket policy instruments that limit the impact of labour demand on employment as stated previously promoting the labourmarket integration of young people is a key challenge productive development policies would boost productive job creation especially through the growth of small and mediumsized enterprises and would help reduce the wide productivity gaps that prevail in the region to achieve this governments would have to promote the development of innovation processes and the takeup of new technologies especially in relation to information and communication technologies icts