Vocational and Technical Training: An IDB Strategy (2000)
This Strategy (GN 2051-1) establishes guidelines for Bank support of vocational training programs, both as stand-alone activities and as part of other projects. The word training is quite broad and often ambiguous. In this report, it is used to refer to the preparation of workers and technicians for activities in the manufacturing, agriculture and service sectors. Training is an area plagued by lack of consensus and bitter controversies. Even the term training can have positive or negative meanings, depending on the author. Much of this paper is an attempt to set the record straight and take positions on many issues surrounding vocational training, starting with a question as basic as whether it makes sense for the public sector to provide training or to pay for it.
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2000-12
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Institutions: | Inter-American Development Bank ; Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) |
Subject: | Vocational & Technical Education | Training & Development | Workforce & Employment | EDU-116. Strategy: GN-2051-1. Vocational | Technical | Training | Strategy | Labor policy | Occupational training |
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