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UNINA9910793659203321 |
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Arias Omar |
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The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa : : Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptability / / Omar Arias |
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Washington, D.C. : , : The World Bank, , 2018 |
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1 online resource (378 pages) |
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Labor supply - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Vocational education - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
Vocational qualifications - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
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Despite strong recent economic growth, Sub-Saharan Africa has levels of economictransformation, 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 inthe 21st century.Sub-Saharan Africa's growing working-age population presents a major opportunity toincrease shared prosperity. Countries in the region have invested heavily in building skills;public expenditure on education increased sevenfold over the past 30 years, and more childrenare in school today than ever before. Yet, systems for building skills in this population havefallen short, and these shortcomings significantly impede economic prospects. In half of thecountries, fewer than two in every three children complete primary school; even fewer reachand complete higher levels of education. Learning outcomes have been persistently poor,leading to substantial gaps in basic cognitive skills - literacy and numeracy - among children,young people, and adults. The literacy rate of the adult population is below 50 percent in manycountries; functional literacy and numeracy rates are even lower.Systemwide change is required to achieve significant progress. Multiple agencies at |
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thecentral and local levels are involved in skills development strategies, making skills "everyone's problem but no one's responsibility." Policies and reforms need to build capacity for evidence-based policies and create incentives to align the behaviors of all stakeholders with the pursuitof national skills development goals.The Skills Balancing Act in Sub-Saharan Africa: Investing in Skills for Productivity, Inclusivity, and Adaptability lays out evidence to inform the policy choices that countries will make in skillinvestments. Each chapter addresses a set of specific questions, drawing on original analysisand synthesis of existing studies to explore key areas: How the skills appropriate to each stage of the life cycle are acquired and what market and institutional failures affect skills formation What systems are needed for individuals to access these skills, including family investments, private sector institutions, schools, and other public programs How those systems can be strengthened How the most vulnerable individuals-those who fall outside the standard systemsand have missed critical building blocks in skills acquisition-can be supported.Countries will face trade-offs - often stark ones - that will have distributional impactsand a bearing on their development path. Committed leaders, reform coalitions, and well-coordinated policies are essential for taking on the skills balancing act in Sub-Saharan Africa. |
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UNINA9910494553503321 |
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Electronic Government : 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, EGOV 2021, Granada, Spain, September 7–9, 2021, Proceedings / / edited by Hans Jochen Scholl, J. Ramon Gil-Garcia, Marijn Janssen, Evangelos Kalampokis, Ida Lindgren, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez Bolívar |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2021 |
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[1st ed. 2021.] |
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1 online resource (339 pages) |
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Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI, , 2946-1642 ; ; 12850 |
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Computers and civilization |
Application software |
Computer engineering |
Computer networks |
Coding theory |
Information theory |
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Artificial intelligence |
Computers and Society |
Computer and Information Systems Applications |
Computer Engineering and Networks |
Coding and Information Theory |
Software Engineering |
Artificial Intelligence |
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Digital Transformation -- Data Science or Process Science? How to Promote the Next Digital Transformation in the Public Sector -- Digital Transformation Initiatives in Public Administration During the Covid-19 Pandemic in Brazil: Unveiling Challenges and Opportunities -- How to Redesign Government Processes for Proactive Public Services? -- Digital |
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Services and Open Government -- Understanding Actor Roles in Inter-organizational Digital Public Services -- Perceived and Actual Lock-in Effects Amongst Swedish Public Sector Organisations when Using a SaaS Solution -- The Importance of ICT in Local Governments: Results from a Survey on the Characterization of the ICT Function in Portugal -- Beyond Substantive Goals – A Framework for Understanding Citizens Need and Goals in Bureaucratic Encounters -- eCommerce Platforms Evaluation Framework for Government -- Practitioners’ Perceptions of Fitness to Task of a Leading Disaster Response Management Tool -- Open Data: Social and TechnicalPerspectives -- A Typology of Municipalities’ Roles and Expected User’s Roles in Open Government Data Release and Reuse -- A Digital Game to Learn about Open Data -- Ronda: Real-time Data Provision, Processing and Publication for Open Data -- The Potential of BOLD in National Budget Planning: Opportunities and Challenges for Kosovo -- Smart Cities -- Policy Recommendations for Promoting Touristic Attractivity from Local Government Perspective in Innovative Environments -- Understanding the Factors that Affect Smart City and Community Initiatives: Lessons from Local Governments in the United States -- The Social Representation of Smart Cities: A View from Brazil -- Trust Factors Affecting the Adoption of E-government for Civic Engagement -- Data Analytics, Decision Making, and Artificial Intelligence -- Applying Explainable Artificial Intelligence Techniques on Linked Open Government Data -- A Trustable and Interoperable Decentralized Solution for Citizen-centric and Cross-bordereGovernance: A Conceptual Approach -- Using Business Data in Customs Risk Management: Data Quality and Data Value Perspective -- Process Automation as Enabler of Prioritized Values in Local Government – A Stakeholder Analysis -- TLV-dissɣ: A Dissimilarity Measure for Public Administration Process Logs -- Towards a Framework for the Adaption of the Internet of Things in International Border Control Organizations. |
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This book constitutes the proceedings of the 20th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Government, EGOV 2021, held in Granada, Spain, in September 2021, in conjunction with the IFIP WG 8.5 IFIP International Conference on Electronic Participation (ePart 2021) and the International Conference for E-Democracy and Open Government Conference (CeDEM 2021). The 23 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 63 submissions. The papers are clustered under the following topical sections: digital transformation; digital services and open government; open data: social and technical perspectives; smart cities; and data analytics, decision making, and artificial intelligence. Chapters "Perceived and Actual Lock-in Effects Amongst Swedish Public Sector Organisations when Using a SaaS Solution" and "Ronda: Real-time Data Provision, Processing and Publication for Open Data" are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. |
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