There have been various initiatives to improve learning outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and synthesize...
There have been many initiatives to improve education outcomes in South Asia. Still, outcomes remain stubbornly resistant to improvements, at least when considered across the region. To collect and synthesize...
As a successful result of sarva skhiksha abhiyan (SSA), the number of out of school children (6 to 14 years) has come down substantially, and the stage has been set for an exponential growth and demand...
This paper stresses that despite the fact that India is a fast developing economy difficulties have led the Government to conclude that far more needs to be done to engender more employment opportunities...
Bangladesh has made considerable progress in its economic development, presently reaching high average growth of nearly 6 percent. This economic growth has been accompanied by an annual employment growth...
Bangladesh has made considerable progress in its economic development. Among other fundamental factors, recent high average economic growth rate of over 5 percent has been accompanied by labor force and...
This paper presents new evidence on the impact of school characteristics on secondary student achievement using a rich data set from rural Bangladesh. The authors deal with a potentially important selectivity...
The authors analyze child work in Zambia applying two recent surveys, the Living Standards Measurement Study (LSMS) 1998 (World Bank) and the Statistical Information & Monitoring Programme on Child Labor...
There is often broad political support in developing countries for public provision and financing of worker training and most countries have policies that, either directly or indirectly, support the training...
In this paper, the authors provide an overview of the recent international experience with active labor market programs (ALMPs). Basing the evidence on the growing body of program evaluations, it focuses...
This note examines one of the most commonly used techniques for generating resources from employers - payroll levies. In many countries payroll taxes on enterprises (with reimbursement for training undertaken)...
Public Employment Services (PES) in industrialized countries have traditionally provided job-brokering services - arranging for jobseekers to obtain jobs and employers to fill vacancies. Increasingly...
Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unemployed...
Over the past 40 years, "active" labor market programs (ALMPs) have emerged as an important employment policy tool. Their objective is primarily economic - to increase the probability that the unemployed...
Au cours des 40 dernières années, des programmes « actifs » du marché du travail (PAMT) ont émergé comme outils importants de politique de l’emploi. Leur objectif est avant tout économique : augmenter...
The sudden, and often painful consequences of the financial crisis in East and Southern Asia, led to disappearing employment, and earning opportunities in the formal sector, reduced incomes, and meager...
Le rapport examine les résultats de l’évaluation des programmes de recherche active d’emploi sur les marchés du travail, y compris les résultats de plusieurs études distinctes sur le sujet. La plupart...
The study reports evidence based on recent evaluation of active labor market programs, in developed countries, as well as on developing, and transition economies. While a number of unresolved technical...
This country summary presents a review of the vocational education, and training (VET) system in Australia, exploring the significant expansion of VET since 1974, with an emphasis on the realization that...
This paper synthesizes the findings of a multi-country study on vocational education, and training (VET), which specify that, while governments generally perceive, an increase in demand for training exist...