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Surely, Shevardnadze’s political skills were worthy of another great Soviet politician from the Caucasus, the Armenian Anastas Mikoyan, once Stalin’s trusted trade minister and later Nikita Khrushchev’s fellow anti-Stalinist and deputy prime minister.
But, in the end, it takes more than strong policy and analytical skills to deal with tough economic challenges.
Delivering, say, advanced imported technologies that companies might not be able to afford on their own would be a powerful inducement for them to contribute to upgrading the skills of the local labor force.
The region’s emerging democracies urgently need an Arab initiative that resembles the Marshall Plan – a program to attract large-scale investment in infrastructure, industry, and agriculture (and in the region’s wealth of untapped technical skills), thereby boosting employment.
As Wolfers explains,“The principle of comparative advantage tells us that gains from trade are largest when your trading partner has skills and endowments that are quite different from yours.
When your skills are so similar, the gains from trade aren’t so large.
Being president and running for president require very different skills.
The remedy it offers, investment in education and skills, promises few immediate rewards and would bear fruit years from now, at best.
This includes not only raw materials and machines, which can be shipped around, but also many specialized labor skills, infrastructure, and rules, which cannot be moved easily and hence need to be spatially collocated.
To address the problem requires investing in inclusion, endowing people with skills, and connecting them to the inputs and networks that can make them productive.
This has fanned speculation that a “mismatch” between workers’ skills and employers’ needs is a significant factor behind the elevatedunemployment rate.
But, as the US economy recovers, technological change is accelerating, fueling demand for more skills at a time when the workforce’s educational-attainment levels have plateaued.
This is the real skills gap that existed before the Great Recession, and it is getting worse over time.
To address the skills gap, the US must boost the educational attainment of current and future workers.
Additionally, entrepreneurs and engineers who possess skills essential for Japan’s growth could be offered bold income and resident tax breaks.
Their ideas, skills, and energy are vital to Rakuten’s global push.
Specifically, universities could play a crucial role in closing urgent education and skills gaps, by helping to prepare workers for the jobs of the twenty-first century.
This means, first and foremost, ensuring that people gain practical skills that can drive economic development in the decades ahead.
With the right education, skills, and job opportunities, this immense workforce could deliver rapid and sustainable economic growth for the entire region.
A recent report by the McKinsey Global Institute estimates that, depending on a country’s level of development, advances in automation will require 3-14% of workers worldwide to change occupations or upgrade their skills by the year 2030.
The second imperative is to equip workers with the right skills.
Future-of-work debates often overlook the question of how the labor market will evolve and either improve or exacerbate the skills mismatch that is already acute in developed countries.
The jobs of the future will require not just more cognitive skills, but also more creativity and social skills, such as coaching.
Upgrading skills on a large scale will require coordination among parents, educators, governments, employers, and employees, with a focus on lower-skilled individuals.
In general, it is fair to say that these activities are performed more efficiently as a result: People whose skills are worth, say, $50 per hour spend more of their time earning $50, rather than performing chores “worth” $10 or $20 per hour.
The continent’s youth population is projected to double by 2050, to 840 million, and yet Africa’s schools and universities are not producing enough graduates with the technical skills to succeed in the workplace of tomorrow.
Many of the young people with whom we spoke said that their biggest obstacle to a career in farming is learning the digital and technical skills necessary to succeed in today’s agricultural market.
It stands to reason, then, that if more young people could master digital skills, more would find work in the field.
Indeed, African business leaders often cite finding people with the right skills as a major challenge to their operations, especially in high-tech industries.
And, in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanzania, public-school students lack the core skills expected at their age and grade level.
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