Employers’ Participation in Training Finance: An Example from Brazil

How are small farmers and herdsmen to be turned into skilled industrial workers after tax incentives have attracted industry to a previously agricultural region? How can the high wages and settlement costs associated with recruiting workers from other regions or other countries be avoided? One possibility is to provide training within the region, to prepare the local workforce for participation in the modern economy. But what is to be done when the government and the public agency responsible for training fail to develop an appropriate programme? Local industries must then take it upon themselves to train their own workforce.