Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017

Romania has made considerable progress in recent years towards reducing macroeconomic imbalances. Such reductions, together with monetary policies and structural reforms, either implemented or in progress, have contributed to maintaining macroecono...

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Format: Technical Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
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spelling okr-10986-291022021-05-25T09:09:14Z Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017 World Bank SKILLS DEVELOPMENT TECHNICAL EDUCATION VOCATIONAL EDUCATION TECHNICAL TRAINING TVET LABOR MARKET TRAINING Romania has made considerable progress in recent years towards reducing macroeconomic imbalances. Such reductions, together with monetary policies and structural reforms, either implemented or in progress, have contributed to maintaining macroeconomic and financial stability. After the budget deficit peaked in 2009‐2011 in the context of the economic and financial crisis, Romania’s economy then started to recover, at first with a modest annual GDP growth rate of less than 1 percent, but increasing over the period 2013‐2015 to an average of 3.4 percent. The unemployment rate, however, remained constant at below 7 percent, while investments continued to rise, reaching 23.7 percent of GDP in 2015, which was the highest in the EU. Education policies and those aimed at increasing the quality of the workforce are paramount for combating poverty and supportingeconomic growth.The results, as contained in this report, are based on a new World Bank tool designed for this purpose. Known as SABER‐WfD, the tool is part of the World Bank’s initiative on Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) whose aim is to provide systematic documentation and assessment of the policy and institutional factors that influence the performance of education and training systems. The SABER‐WfD tool encompasses initial, continuing and targeted vocational education and training that are offered through multiple channels, and focuses largely on programs at the secondary and post‐secondary levels. 2017-12-28T20:42:07Z 2017-12-28T20:42:07Z 2017-11-01 Technical Paper http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/147031513776857610/SABER-workforce-development-country-report-Romania-2017 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/29102 English Systems Approach for Better Education Results; CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research Publications & Research :: Working Paper Europe and Central Asia Romania
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topic SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
TECHNICAL EDUCATION
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
TECHNICAL TRAINING
TVET
LABOR MARKET
TRAINING
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TECHNICAL EDUCATION
VOCATIONAL EDUCATION
TECHNICAL TRAINING
TVET
LABOR MARKET
TRAINING
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Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017
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description Romania has made considerable progress in recent years towards reducing macroeconomic imbalances. Such reductions, together with monetary policies and structural reforms, either implemented or in progress, have contributed to maintaining macroeconomic and financial stability. After the budget deficit peaked in 2009‐2011 in the context of the economic and financial crisis, Romania’s economy then started to recover, at first with a modest annual GDP growth rate of less than 1 percent, but increasing over the period 2013‐2015 to an average of 3.4 percent. The unemployment rate, however, remained constant at below 7 percent, while investments continued to rise, reaching 23.7 percent of GDP in 2015, which was the highest in the EU. Education policies and those aimed at increasing the quality of the workforce are paramount for combating poverty and supportingeconomic growth.The results, as contained in this report, are based on a new World Bank tool designed for this purpose. Known as SABER‐WfD, the tool is part of the World Bank’s initiative on Systems Approach for Better Education Results (SABER) whose aim is to provide systematic documentation and assessment of the policy and institutional factors that influence the performance of education and training systems. The SABER‐WfD tool encompasses initial, continuing and targeted vocational education and training that are offered through multiple channels, and focuses largely on programs at the secondary and post‐secondary levels.
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title Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017
title_short Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017
title_full Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017
title_fullStr Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017
title_full_unstemmed Romania Workforce Development : SABER Country Report 2017
title_sort romania workforce development : saber country report 2017
publisher World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate 2017
url http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/147031513776857610/SABER-workforce-development-country-report-Romania-2017
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