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1. The Committee notes the Government's report for the period ending 30 June 1988 and the information supplied in reply to its previous comments. The report shows that the Government has had to face two types of constraints. On the one hand, external constraints resulting from the world economic crisis, which have made it necessary to reduce investment plans over recent years and has led to a contraction of the labour market. On the other hand, internal constraints of a demographic nature, resulting from the rapid growth of the population, which has had the effect of increasing the number of jobseekers each year, the control of which has been a major concern to the Government. The general orientations of the Government's employment policy emphasise the mobilisation and rational utilisation of human resources, within the framework of measures intended to achieve a better balance on the labour market. The Government states that employment is the fundamental element in the 1989 annual plan, and that the priorities that have been set out are intended to create 90,000 permanent jobs in the public and private sectors, considered complementary. A specific programme for the employment of young persons was set up in 1988 with the objective of occupying almost 100,000 young persons. The Committee would be grateful if the Government, in its next report, would provide information to assess the extent to which the employment objective set out for the 1985-89 five-year period have been achieved and to identify the difficulties that have been encountered. It also hopes that the Government's next report will contain information on the measures that have been taken or are envisaged, within the context of a co-ordinated economic and social policy, to achieve the objectives of the Convention, with particular reference to measures intended to balance the supply and demand of labour, at professional and geographical level, including the measures to adjust the workforce to structural changes (Articles 1 and 2 of the Convention).

2. Additionally, the Committee is sending to the Government a direct request on other points, specifically concerning new development plans and programmes, statistical data on the employment situation in the various regions of the country, measures taken as regard to the needs of youth, women, disabled workers, migrant workers and consultation with representatives of private employers or of other persons concerned such as those employed in the rural sector (Article 3).