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Vietnam : Higher Education and Skills for Growth
World Bank - 2012
The demand for skills has been increasing significantly in Vietnam, due to a combination of inter-industry employment changes, capital accumulation and some evidence which is consistent with skill-biased technical change. As a result employment opportunities for tertiary graduates now exist in...
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Assessing the Role of the School Operational Grant Program in Improving Education Outcomes in Indonesia
World Bank - 2014
Over the last ten years, Indonesia has continued to make significant progress in improving educational opportunities … provides a brief overview of school funding in Indonesia before setting out the channels through which the BOS program was …
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Indonesia - Preparing Indonesian Youth for Transition : Issues and Policy Agenda for Senior Secondary Education
World Bank - 2013
With the globalized economy, well-educated youth will be critical to Indonesia s competitiveness in the future. Demand … facilitates knowledge spillover and attracts technology imports. In the past decades, significant changes of Indonesia s labor … linked to the country s future. This sector report assesses Indonesia s senior secondary school system from three angles: (1 …
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Indonesia - Investing in Indonesia's Education at the District Level : An Analysis of Regional Public Expenditure and Financial Management
World Bank - 2012
Since the implementation of decentralization in 2001, district governments have been getting increased responsibilities to provide education services to the citizen. Basic and secondary education management authority has been fully transferred from the central to the provincial and district...
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Unlocking the Employment Potential in the Middle East and North Africa : Toward a New Social Contract
World Bank - 2013
The book focuses on the future prosperity of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, which together with other companion volumes-on trade and investment, governance, and gender-contributes to ongoing debates, and dialogues about development in the region, and the development challenges...
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Harnessing Youth Potential in Ghana
World Bank - 2016
This policy note provides a view of the main challenges facing Ghana youth and proposes policy options to address them. The note: (i) highlights youth key characteristics from the perspective of their skills and jobs and the constraints they face, (ii) describes the institutional set up and...
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Ireland Workforce Development : SABER Multiyear Country Report 2012
World Bank - 2012
Ireland has consistently supported workforce development (WfD) as a key element of economic development. This study has been commissioned by the World Bank to test a new instrument, within its Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER)-WfD project, which provides an opportunity to...
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Cameroon Economic Update, January 2012 : Unlocking the Labor Force, An Economic Update on Cameroon with a Focus on Employment
World Bank - 2012
With this Cameroon economic update, the World Bank is pursuing a program of short, crisp and frequent country economic reports. These economic updates provide an analysis of the trends and constraints in Cameroon's economic development. Each issue, produced bi-annually, provides an update of...
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Scientific and Technical Manpower Development in India
World Bank - 2013
The study aims at understanding critical issues in scientific, and technical (S&T) manpower development, and at identifying strategies to reform the system, both at the systemic, and institutional levels. While India has one of the world's largest stock of scientists, engineers, and technicians,...
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