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Sessional Papers No. 2 of 1985 on Unemployment. This Sessional paper is a response to the Report of the Presidential Committee on Unemployment, 1982/83, which was appointed by His Excellency the President to examine the problem of unemployment and to recomend both short and long term strategies for this alleciation. Specifically the committee was required to consider and recomend measures which would stimulate economic growth in both the private and public sectors, disperse employment opportunities to areas of greatest need, promote labour intensive methods of production, reduce the growth of the labour force and its immigration into the urban areas, improve relevance of training and education with the view to elleviating the school-leaver problem, initiate and expand programmes with high employment content and at low cost, and suggest measures which would enhance the contribution of public and private sector institutions to employment creation.