Stepping Up Skills for More Jobs and Higher Productivity

This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet comprehensive way to look at skills development. It brings together research evidence and practical experience from a range of areas-fro...

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Main Author: World Bank
Format: Report
Language:English
en_US
Published: Washington, DC 2017
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/538131468154167664/Stepping-up-skills-for-more-jobs-and-higher-productivity
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/27892
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Summary:This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet comprehensive way to look at skills development. It brings together research evidence and practical experience from a range of areas-from research on the determinants of early childhood development and learning outcomes, to policy experience with the reform of vocational and technical education systems and labor markets-and provides a set of powerful messages to policymakers, researchers, and practitioners. The report's emphasis on performance measurement and benchmarking, policy and program evaluation, and cross-sectoral approaches focusing on individuals throughout their lifecycle provides a solid platform for developing countries to start exploring reforms.