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His courage, vision, eloquence, and political skills provide a model and inspiration for the US and other countries today.
The size and complexity of these datasets require specialized analytical skills (which remain in short supply), as well as more research and experimentation.
These steps would require the IMF mission teams to become more diverse, bringing financial sector expertise in addition to the traditional macro and fiscal skills.
Trump’s presidency has revealed an alternative perspective: globalization, at least as currently construed, tilts the balance of political power toward those with the skills and assets to benefit from openness, undermining whatever organized influence the losers might have had in the first place.
We can argue about the value of education, but large companies are good at offering practical business skills – turning college graduates into project managers, marketers, human-resources specialists, and the like.
On the contrary, whereas many educators recognize the centrality of teaching skills and maximizing efficient use of classroom time, they also advocate breaks between periods of intense work to allow children to relax and interact with peers.
This prevents potentially positive matching of the skills needed by employers and the available supply of them.
A better approach is to develop the skills needed to foster a domestic lithium industry, which can provide good jobs and good wages.
Labor rules that favor job creation – what Scandinavian countries call active labor-market policies – are needed: a combination of information, training, and subsidies that help overcome what are typically serious failures in the market for young workers with limited skills and experience.
At the same time, advanced economies must help workers acquire the skills needed to fill high-quality jobs in the digital economy.
Training programs should be able to impart new skills in a matter of months, not years, and they should be complemented by programs that support workers’ incomes during retraining, and that help them relocate for more productive work.
There can be no doubting that the imagination, marketing savvy, and management skills of private entrepreneurs are critical to the successful application of a new technology.
Simply put, a technocratic focus on upgrading skills and operational capability, in the absence of improved governance of the security services, can be easily subverted by anti-reform coalitions, resulting in the continuation of regressive patterns of behavior.
Victimized by an educational system that collapsed over a decade ago, they have few skills that can help them find employment in Iraq’s blighted economy.
Political meritocracy, in which leaders are selected on the basis of their skills and virtues, is central to both Chinese and Western political theory and practice.
Duisenberg’s great skills – under-appreciated by the press and public alike – were genuine consensus-building in a potentially divisive body and, in Trichet’s own words, “an exceptional ability to keep his nerve in some highly demanding and extremely hostile environments.”
The US should focus on helping to tailor the education and skills of the people being left behind to the available jobs.
Bringing Arab Education OnlineDUBAI – Education has long been a challenge in the Arab world, with inadequate access to high-quality schooling contributing to a widening skills gap that is leaving many young people, even graduates, unemployed and hopeless.
Through online learning, it would be far easier to measure progress and ensure that students are acquiring knowledge and skills they can actually use.
There is every reason to believe that Japan’s strategy for rejuvenating its economy will succeed: the country benefits from strong institutions, has a well-educated labor force with superb technical skills and design sensibilities, and is located in the world’s most (only?) dynamic region.
Unfortunately, across most economies, skills and capabilities do not seem to be keeping pace with rapid structural shifts in labor markets.
Governments have proved either unwilling or unable to act aggressively in terms of education and skills retraining or in redistributing income.
Workers know that change is coming, but they do not know how skills requirements are evolving, and thus cannot base their choices on concrete data.
In that process, underestimating Libyan diplomacy, shrewdness and negotiating skills is the folly of the ignorant.
If the high-income non-OECD countries equipped their students at least with very basic skills, they would, as a group, benefit from added economic value equivalent to almost five times their current GDP.
Even with their abundant natural resources, far greater wealth lies untapped in their populations’ undeveloped skills.
In all countries with comparable data, adults with lower literacy skills are far more likely to report poor health, have less trust in their fellow citizens, and perceive themselves as objects – rather than actors – in the political process.
For countries that fail to equip their residents with the proper skills, technological progress is unlikely to translate into economic growth, and large swaths of the population risk languishing on the margins of society.
In many economies, too many unemployed graduates coexist with a large number of employers who cannot find workers with the skills they need.
If individuals and countries are to continue to reap the benefits of education, policymakers must focus on the skills required to prosper in a rapidly changing world.
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