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Bangladesh Skills for Tomorrow's Jobs : Preparing Youth for a Fast-Changing Economy
World Bank (contributor) - World Bank - 2018
The skills for tomorrow's Jobs in Bangladesh attempts to address key skills challenges and identifyopportunities in the backdrop of fast technological and economic changes. It proposes mid to long-term strategic policy options that would contribute to economic growth and job creation in...
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Liberia Skills Development Constraints for Youth in the Informal Sector
World Bank - 2016
.Youth recognize that their lack of skills and experience are impediments to employment.The objective of this report is to assess youth … formal employment, this report has a particular focus on skill development in vocational trades and the informal sector. This … World Bank's Country Partnership Strategy (CPS) 2013-2017. Both recognize that inadequate skills and vulnerable employment …
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Social Networks in Determining Employment and Wages: Patterns, Dynamics, and Inequality
Calvo-Armengol, Antoni; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 2002
social contacts. We show that an improvement in the employment status of either an agent's direct or indirect contacts leads … to an increase in the agent's employment probability and expected wages, in the sense of first order stochastic dominance … show that employment is positively correlated across time and agents, and the same is true for wages. Moreover …
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Review of TCF Assistance
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004
The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...
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Work Arrangements in the Australian Meat Processing Industry
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This report examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of meat processing enterprises. The effects on employees are also considered, and the scope to achieve further necessary change is analysed. The study has drawn on information obtained from...
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Work arrangements in container stevedoring
Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2002
This study examines selected work arrangements and assesses their implications for the performance of container stevedoring workplaces. The effects on employees and users of stevedoring services are also considered, and impediments to achieving improved work arrangements are analysed. This is...
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Stepping Up Skills for More Jobs and Higher Productivity
World Bank - 2010
This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …
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Enhancing Urban Resilience in the Greater Accra Metropolitan Area
World Bank - 2017
The Greater Accra Metropolitan Area (GAMA) is one of the fastest-growing city regions in West Africa. GAMA is exposed to recurrent shocks and stresses on top of numerous developmental challenges and climate change issues that threaten development gains. The deadly floods of June 2015 are a...
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Industrial Change in the Bangkok Urban Region
Thailand Office of the National Economic and Social … - 2010
The 2009 World Development Report (WDR) on economic geography aroused interest among policymakers in Thailand and led to an agreement between the Office of the National Economic and Social Development Board (NESDB) and the East Asia Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Unit of the World...
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