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  • Future Jobs

    Robots, Artificial Intelligence, and Digital Platforms in East Asia and Pacific

    by Omar Arias, Daisuke Fukuzawa, Duong Trung Le, Aaditya Mattoo ...
    People in East Asia and Pacific (EAP) countries have prospered over the last few decades because of the growth in productive jobs. Do industrial robots, artificial intelligence (AI), and digital platforms threaten that development model?Future Jobs presents evidence that new technologies have thus far boosted employment. Increases in productivity and scale have outweighed the labor-displacing ... Read more

    $35.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptability

    by Omar Arias, David K. Evans, Indhira Santos ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Despite strong recent economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa has levels of economic transformation, poverty reduction, and skill development far below those of other regions. Smart investments in developing skills—aligned with the policy goals of productivity growth, inclusion, and adaptability—can help to accelerate the region's economic transformation in the 21st century. Sub-Saharan Africa's ... Read more

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  • The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptability

    by Omar Arias, David K. Evans, Indhira Santos ...
    Series series Africa Development Forum
    Despite strong recent economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa has levels of economic transformation, poverty reduction, and skill development far below those of other regions. Smart investments in developing skills—aligned with the policy goals of productivity growth, inclusion, and adaptability—can help to accelerate the region’s economic transformation in the 21st century. Sub-Saharan Africa’s ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

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  • Future-Generation Government

    How to Legislate for the Long Term

    by Nicholas Chesterley ...
    In the decades preceding COVID-19 there were nine pandemics or near-pandemics, from SARS to Ebola. Despite this turbulent recent history, many governments were unprepared for the recent pandemic and remain ill-equipped for the next.Our impact on future generations has never been greater, and the challenges we face will increasingly play out over the long term. Climate change is accelerating, ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Good Enough for Government Work

    The Public Reputation Crisis in America (And What We Can Do to Fix It)

    by Amy E. Lerman ...
    American government is in the midst of a reputation crisis. An overwhelming majority of citizens—Republicans and Democrats alike—hold negative perceptions of the government and believe it is wasteful, inefficient, and doing a generally poor job managing public programs and providing public services. When social problems arise, Americans are therefore skeptical that the government has the ability ... Read more

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  • World Development Report 2014

    Risk and Opportunity - Managing Risk for Development

    by World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    The last 25 years have witnessed unprecedented changes around the world—many of them for the better. In all continents, numerous countries have embarked on a path of international integration, economic reform, technological modernization, and democratic participation. As result, economies that had been stagnant for decades are growing, people who had suffered deprivation for generations are ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • World Development Report 2013

    Jobs

    by World Bank World Bank ...
    Series series World Development Report
    Jobs provide higher earnings and better benefits as countries grow, but they are also a driver of development. Poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empowering women lead to greater investments in children. Efficiency increases as workers get better at what they do, as more productive jobs appear, and less productive ones disappear. Societies flourish as jobs bring ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Older Persons' Right to Work and Productive Resources

    by Alan S. Gutterman ...
    The right to work is a fundamental human right that is universally recognized as an inherent part of human dignity for persons of all ages and essential for the realization of other human rights. It is clear under various human rights standards that steps need to be taken by States and businesses to promote and protect core labor rights such as the right to work, the right to choose employment, ... Read more

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  • Industrial Policy and Economic Transformation in Africa

    Edited by Akbar Noman, Joseph E. Stiglitz ...
    Series series Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
    The revival of economic growth in Sub-Saharan Africa is all the more welcome for having followed one of the worst economic disasters—a quarter century of economic malaise for most of the region—since the industrial revolution. Six of the world's fastest-growing economies in the first decade of this century were African. Yet only in Ethiopia and Rwanda was growth not based on resources and the ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016

    Development Goals in an Era of Demographic Change

    by World Bank;International Monetary Fund ...
    Series series Global Monitoring Report
    The Global Monitoring Report 2015/2016, produced by the World Bank Group in partnership with the International Monetary Fund, comes at an inflection point in both the setting of global development goals and the demographic trends affecting those goals. This year marks the end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the launching of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while the World ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Systematic Thinking for Social Action

    by Alice M. Rivlin ...
    Series series A Brookings Classic
    In January 1970 Alice M. Rivlin spoke to an audience at the University of California-Berkeley. The topic was developing a more rational approach to decisionmaking in government. If digital video, YouTube, and TED Talks had been inventions of the 1960s, Rivlin's talk would have been a viral hit. As it was, the resulting book, Systematic Thinking for Social Action, spent years on the Brookings Press ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • The Right Skills for the Job?: Rethinking Training Policies for Workers

    Edited by Rita Almeida, Jere Behrman, David Robalino ...
    Creating jobs and increasing productivity are at the top of agenda for policymakers across the world. Knowledge accumulation and skills are recognized as central in this process. More-educated workers not only have better employment opportunities, earn more, and have more stable and rewarding jobs, but also they are more adaptable and mobile. Workers who acquire more skills also make other workers ... Read more

    $11.99 USD