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Skill Development for International Competitiveness
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Book : Skill Development for International Competitiveness Author : * Martin Godfrey Language : English Library : Social Policy Publish Place : UK ISBN : 1 85898 551 X Publish Date : 00 1997 Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing,Inc. Book Type : Book Book Number : 3668 |
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INDEX
Contents
List of figures
List of tables
List of contributors
Foreword
Introduction Martin Godfrey
PARTI THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
1 Simple analytical considerations for skill development for international competitiveness
Jere R. Behrman
2 Does educating girls improve export opportunities? Kersti Berge and Adrian Wood
PART II LABOUR-MARKET ISSUES
3 From cheap labour to skill-based competitiveness: some labour-market aspects of the transition Martin Godfrey
4 Can governments engineer the transition from cheap labour to skill-based competitiveness? The case of Singapore
Cheah Hock Beng
PART III THE ROLE OF EDUCATION AND TRAINING
5 Education and training for manufacturing development Robert Cassen and George Mavrotas
6 State failure or market failure? The ten steps to a levy-grant system of vocational training
Chris Edwards
PART IV STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT
7 Skill development and structural adjustment Robert E.B. Lucas
8 Human resources and structural adjustment: evidence from Costa Rica
Lucy P. Nichols
PART V THE VIEW FROM THE ENTERPRISE
9 Training and motivation in the context of new approaches to manufacturing production: evidence from Latin America John Humphrey
10 Skills and capabilities: Ghana's industrial competitiveness Sanjaya Lall and Ganeshan Wignaraja
Index
