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disconnected from formal skills development systems; (ii) actual skills, rather than education levels, diplomas, or years of … schooling as proxies for skills; and (iii) the broader set of skills, not just job-technical skills associated with one … occupation or another. The findings of the report are expected to be relevant to inform public policies looking to narrow skills …
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helpful to policy makers at the Federal and Regional level who are concerned about the need for the Russian Education system …
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In an era of globalization and rapidly changing technology, the nature of work and skills required is also rapidly … changing, and it calls for an urgent need to redefine the types of skills considered in public policy. Technology is reshaping … the demand for skills by reducing the value of skills that can be substituted by technologies. Technology is affecting the …
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As the telecommunications sector evolves toward a more competitive environment in which the private actors become the main players, it is essential to develop policies that will reduce the disparities between urban and rural telecommunications services. This report provides a comprehensive...
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This paper summarizes the World Bank assistance strategy for rural development in the ECA region. The rural sector includes the people; economic; development activities; institutional, economic, and social infrastructure; and natural resources in rural areas and is thus not confined to agriculture....
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The World Bank has been supporting range livestock development since the 1960s, gaining experience that currently contributes to best practices in natural resource management (NRM) in pastoral areas. This report focuses on NRM in the arid rangelands used by pastoralists in Africa and the Middle...
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The Philippines increasingly emphasizes lifelong learning and skills mobility for labor productivity as an integral …'s skills development came with the introduction of the national qualifications system known as the Philippine Qualifications … Framework (PQF). To ensure that the PQF remains responsive to the skills demand and needs of the international and domestic …
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This report presents a comprehensive diagnostic of the Palestinian Territories' workforce development (WfD) policies and institutions. The analysis is based on a World Bank research tool created under the Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) initiative and purposefully designed...
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This report presents detailed findings of a teacher performance study in Lebanon, one of four studies carried out under the Research for Results (R4R) program, a partnership between the Lebanese Ministry of Education and Higher Education and Development Partners. The objective of the research...
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