Monday, April 22, 2002
- Welcome & introduction
- Global trends in labor markets
- Keynote address
- Course logic & structure
- Regional trends & policy issues

Tuesday, April 23, 2002
- Active labor market policies
- Parallel sessions on evaluating ALMP: Mexico (PROBECAT), China, Eastern Europe, and "Trabajar" program

Wednesday, April 24, 2002
- Passive labor market policies
- Developing country cases: Brazil, Peru
- Design issues of PLMPs
- Clinic on active & passive labor market policies

Thursday, April 25, 2002
- Public sector downsizing & severance pay
- Downsizing & severance pay toolkit
- Lunch panel: SALs & their labor market impact
- Privatization & SOE restructuring, case studies
- Expert panel discussion

Friday, April 26, 2002
- Team-based action learning: country case studies
- U.S. Department of Labor (field trip)

Monday, April 29, 2002
- Skills development & training policies
- Skills development country studies
- Parallel sessions on training policies: Africa, ECCA, India, LAC, EAP

Tuesday, April 30, 2002
- The informal sector
- Informal sector case studies: home-based workers
- Engendering development
- Parallel sessions on gender & labor markets

Wednesday, May 1, 2002
- Labor market regulations
- Core labor standards
- Lunch seminar: why core labor standards matter for development
- Application of core labor standards in developing countries

Thursday, May 2, 2002
- Child labor, poverty & development
- Break-out sessions on data, instruments, & child labor interventions
- Parallel sessions: expert workshops on HIV/AIDS, youth unemployment, labor market information systems, designing enterprise training surveys

Friday, May 3, 2002
- Group presentations: labor markets considerations & labor market policies in country poverty reduction strategies
- Wrap up & course evaluation