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Ensuring long-term economic growth and social cohesion requires a commitment to health and safety, a better balance between work, family and leisure, lifelong learning, greater
workforce
diversity, gender-blind pay and career prospects, and profit-sharing and equity-ownership schemes.
Experience in Rwanda shows that curriculum redesign requires close cooperation with education and
workforce
development authorities, as well as government officials, teachers, and school administrators.
More capital should flow to countries with younger populations – with their growing manufacturing bases and consumer markets – to support investment and employment growth; and more labor should flow to countries with aging populations, to fill gaps in the
workforce.
In past decades, the region reaped a demographic dividend from its young, expanding
workforce
and strong growth policies.
With fertility rates declining and people living longer, the
workforce
is shrinking and getting older at the same time.
The CEO needs to be talking about the business of the company to its workforce, investors, and the wider world, not be stuck at the AGM defending the executive team’s salaries.
Even if it is not explicitly prohibited, joining the
workforce
is often very difficult for women, not least because of widespread resistance among the men who dominate these societies.
Even women who do not own or run businesses would have much to offer, if given the chance to enter the
workforce
and earn their own living.
Unless corporations step up to the plate, “American business will suffer from an inadequate workforce, a population of depleted consumers, and large blocs of anti-business voters.”
Ambitious climate action could also create more than 65 million new low-carbon jobs, prevent 700,000 deaths from air pollution every year, and lead to higher
workforce
participation by women.
The resulting upheavals in the structure of the
workforce
can be at least as important as the actual number of jobs that are affected.
As they enter the workforce, their language skills improve, their household income soars, and their children see firsthand a woman in a respected, economically valued role.
China has also benefited from rapid employment growth, with more than seven million workers having entered the
workforce
each year since 1990.
With two-thirds of its staff located in Washington, DC, the Bank needs to reorganize its workforce, which consists of life-tenured experts and a plethora of consultants to overcome the consequent rigidities, but little in between.
In practical terms, a varied, decentralized, and, most importantly, flexible
workforce
should be among the Bank’s top priorities.
Worse still, half the world’s young people will still be entering the
workforce
with no recognizable qualifications, and will probably suffer long periods of unemployment.
The Danish wind industry is nearly completely dependent on taxpayer subsidies to support a modest
workforce.
The government subsidy has shifted employment to less productive employment in the wind industry, meaning that Danish GDP is approximately $270 million lower than it would be if the wind-sector
workforce
was employed elsewhere.
In a recent report, the economist Philippe Legrain demonstrated how countries that invest in newcomers’ successful and rapid integration into the
workforce
can, within five years, reap economic benefits that are twice as large as the initial outlay.
Similarly, while India’s information technology-enabled services have gained an international reputation, the total number of people employed in this sector is less than 0.5% of India’s
workforce.
Such obstacles include the absence of an informed and capable workforce, instinctive mistrust and rejection of new ideas and technologies just because they come from the West, lack of respect for those who acquire new knowledge, and endemic discrimination against women.
By 2030, over 120 million young people will enter the
workforce
across the continent.
As many more young Africans prepare to enter the workforce, adequate job creation will require continued expansion of entrepreneurship.
The total
workforce
will reach 17.7 million by the end of the current five-year plan, with 2.8 million or 15.8% unemployed.
As labor becomes a less important part of the economy, and working-age men, in particular, become a smaller proportion of the workforce, problems related to social inclusion are bound to become both more chronic and more acute.
The main demographic groups behind the anti-establishment upsurge have been people outside the workforce: pensioners, middle-aged homemakers, and men with low educational qualifications receiving disability payments.
Indeed, a modest 3% increase in the developed-country
workforce
would provide a larger economic boost than removing all remaining trade barriers.
Around the world, the number of women in the
workforce
remains far below that of men; only about half of working-age women are employed.
The potential gains from a larger female
workforce
are striking.
And, in advanced countries, a larger female labor force can help to counteract the impact of a shrinking
workforce
and mitigate the costs of an aging population.
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