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The Committee refers to its observation and to its previous comments. It would be grateful if, in its next report, the Government would provide information on the following points.

1. The Committee notes with interest that during the period 1985-88, a number of technical training schools were set up; 50 per cent of them are in the interior of the country and a total of 11,745 persons have registered (1986). In addition, a new Act respecting the National Service for the Promotion of Vocational Training has been adopted. Please provide a copy of the Act, adopted in 1987, along with data of the results obtained by the National Service for the Promotion of Vocational Training in ensuring that the graduates obtain employment in which they can make use of the training received.

2. The Committee notes with interest the information on the public investment projects and the data concerning public works which have been completed or are nearing completion. Please continue to provide information on jobs created as a result of the activities of the Municipal Development Institute (IDM). Please indicate the measures that are envisaged to offset any job dislocation that may occur as a result of completion of public works.

3. The Committee takes note of the data on employment and unemployment trends in Asunción and the Metropolitan Area. According to data available in the Office, the open unemployment rate in the rest of the country is 11 per cent (estimate of the Central Bank of Paraguay, published by the ECLAC in the Economic Survey of Latin America and the Caribbean (1988). Please continue to provide statistics of labour market trends, particularly in the rural sector, indicating the extent to which such data are used as the basis for employment policy measures adopted.

4. Please indicate the action undertaken with regard to employment policy, as a result of the project PAR/85/005 "Youth participation in development", and continue to provide information on the "youth joint production ventures" (empresas asociativas juveniles de producción), referred to by the Government in its report.

5. Part V of the report form. Please indicate the action undertaken as a result of the technical assistance project being implemented in the context of the World Employment Programme, PAR/88/003 "Diagnosis of the urban informal sector and support for the micro-enterprise", or any factors which may have prevented or delayed it.