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And, though the two councils are certainly staffed by people with the technical credentials needed to manage the economy, few members have any real political skills or experience overseeing bureaucratic bodies.
Jobs that require lower skills and less training are particularly vulnerable; but it is also clear that many other occupational categories – including administration, accounting, logistics, banking, and various service activities – are likely to be affected.
Tasks like maneuvering small blood vessels that are 1-2 millimeters in diameter, or removing a brain tumor without damaging the surrounding tissue, require technologies, such as the operating microscope and multimodal imaging tools, that complement surgeons’ skills and augment their abilities.
But my hope is still to go abroad, learn skills, and return to help others here.
For example, while endlessly worrying about the existence of dangerous material online, we could do more to educate our youth in the critical thinking skills needed to dismiss such content.
As this approach facilitates the rise of global super-firms, it creates serious problems for labor markets and societies, because it destroys mid-level jobs based on old skills faster than comparable jobs based on new skills can be created.
Companies with a future need for certain skills would become a kind of sponsor, involving potential future job offers, to a person willing to acquire those skills.
But, even there, while the unemployment rate has dropped during the year, and now stands at 7%, long-term joblessness is at an unusually high 36% of total unemployment, threatening to erode the skills base and make recovery that much more difficult.
So machismo creates people with only half the skills that modern life requires.
Whatever the outcome of Putin’s revisionism, Russia’s nuclear weapons, oil and gas, skills in cyber technology, and proximity to Europe, will give him the resources to cause problems for the West and the international system.
For example, earlier this week, at Microsoft’s annual AppCup competition, which gives European developers and young entrepreneurs the opportunity to showcase their skills, two promising female developers ranked among the 13 finalists – a major accomplishment, given that this year’s contest attracted 200 submissions from 31 countries.
To boost exports, Brazil will have to develop distinctive skills and capabilities, particularly in industries adjacent to commodities.
These failures suggest that we should have less confidence in the supposed professional skills of technocrats--or at least less confidence than they have in themselves.
Policymakers will need to focus on increasing the technical and cognitive skills of university graduates, and on building a few world-class research universities with strong links to industry.
In 2007, many people wrote off his campaign, but he had the skills to resurrect it and capture the Republican nomination.
Both McCain and Obama possess impressive hard-power political and organizational skills; otherwise, they would not be where they are today.
But when it comes to the soft power skills of emotional intelligence, vision, and communication, Obama outranks McCain.
The key to success for African countries will be to strengthen the skills base and build competitive industries in the textile and apparel sector.
By promoting regional integration, improved infrastructure can enhance trade and support skills development.
Governments should ensure that TVET courses focus on more relevant skills, while remaining flexible so that students can study without sacrificing income.
The program offers short courses on welding and other skills needed to repair rural machinery.
The private sector can also help produce more graduates with job-ready skills.
Asian countries should take a cue from India’s National Skill Development Corporation, which works with private training firms to match skills curricula with industry needs.
Furthermore, governments should offer subsidies or tax incentives to companies that invest in the skills that humans master better than machines, such as communication and negotiation.
Improving access to training and certification would help countries capitalize on these advances and ensure more equitable growth, by giving workers the skills needed to handle the new jobs.
The associations – of carpenters, mechanics, plumbers, and so on – enable pooled savings, provide opportunities to upgrade skills, and create a form of market regulation.
Tailoring education to allow workers to get the on-demand skills they need when they need them, and creating verifiable work histories through blockchain, are two ways to help gig economy workers find suitable opportunities more efficiently and capture more value from selling their labor.
The problem is not just a lack of engineers, but also of people with the necessary business, financial, and communication skills.
Many large companies in emerging markets such as Russia and India train their own employees, because college graduates often lack the requisite skills.
Because none of Macri’s team had previously held national office, analysts and investors initially underestimated their political skills.
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