Abstract

AbstractTo date, global social policy has afforded minimal attention to the ways International Organizations (IOs) have responded to youth unemployment as an important and distinctive policy field. This chapter redresses this gap in the literature by means of a critical analysis of the governance capacities of the key IOs (particularly the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the World Bank (WB)), toward developing a wider understanding of modes of global social governance. The chapter establishes the historical context of multiple IOs’ engagements in this policy field. It focuses on the evolving relationships between the ILO and the WB and their construction of, and withdrawal from, partnerships that variously facilitated and limited the pursuit of their respective strategies and goals for alleviating youth unemployment. Focusing on the ILO’s and the WB’s policy discourses, the chapter traces the trajectories of joint partnerships that were dissolved, and of externally facing partnerships that better reflect distinctive ILO and WB priorities.

Highlights

  • Youth employment and unemployment are only recently becoming recognized as a distinctive field of global and transnational policy

  • Analyses of the outcomes of Youth Employment Network (YEN) and Global Partnership for Youth Employment (GPYE): both International Organizations’ (IOs) have been almost completely opaque as to the causes of their short-lived attempts at endogenous partnership. Overlaying this already complex field of policy actors, in 2018 the UN’s Agenda 2030 program and its Youth Strategy introduced Generation Unlimited (GenU), to ensure that every young person is in education, learning, training or employment by 2030.21

  • A highly condensed summary of their partnerships throws into stark relief the evolving trajectory of International Labour Organization (ILO)-World Bank (WB) relations, as follows

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Introduction

Youth employment and unemployment are only recently becoming recognized as a distinctive field of global and transnational policy. While all address labor or employment policy, in comparison there has been little or no analysis of global social policy actors’ engagement with unemployment in relation to young people— predominantly the most vulnerable unemployment demographic in recently transformed labor markets. General interest in this policy field burgeoned in the years following the Global Financial. Particular attention is given to the various formations these IOs constitute, and the trajectories, configurations and processes which the evolution of their partnerships has entailed This focus emphasizes the coexistence and contestation of the ILO and WB, and the modes of mutual engagement, cooperation and collaboration between them.

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