LEADER 03499oam 22004695 450 001 9910798867203321 005 20170620150336.0 024 7 $a10.1596/978-1-4648-0941-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000941962 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4744468 035 $a(The World Bank)210941 035 $a(US-djbf)210941 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000941962 100 $a20020129d2016 uf 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aExpanding Job Opportunities in Ghana /$fMaddalena Honorati 210 1$aWashington, D.C. :$cThe World Bank,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (160 pages) 225 1 $aDirections in Development;Directions in Development - Human Development 311 $a1-4648-0941-0 311 $a1-4648-0942-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 3 $aGhana was, until very recently, a success story in Africa, achieving high and sustained growth and impressive poverty reduction. However, Ghana is now facing major challenges in diversifying its economy, sustaining growth, and making it more inclusive. Most of the new jobs that have been created in the past decade have been in low-earning, low-productivity trade services. Macroeconomic instability, limited diversification and growing inequities in Ghana's labor markets make it harder for the economy to create more jobs, and particularly, better jobs. Employment needs to expand in both urban areas, which will continue to grow rapidly, and rural areas, where poverty is still concentrated. The current fiscal and economic crisis is heightening the need for urgent reforms but limiting the room for maneuver and increasing pressure for a careful prioritization of policy actions. Going forward, Ghana will need to consider an integrated jobs strategy that addresses barriers to the business climate, deficiencies in skills, lack of competitiveness of job-creating sectors, problems with labor mobility, and the need for comprehensive labor market regulation. Ghana needs to diversify its economy through gains in productivity in sectors like agribusiness, transport, construction, energy, and information and communications technology (ICT) services. Productivity needs to be increased also in agriculture, in order to increase the earnings potential for the many poor who still work there. In particular, Ghana's youth and women need help in connecting to these jobs, through relevant skills development and services that target gaps in information about job opportunities. Even with significant effort, most of Ghana's population will continue to work in jobs characterized by low and fluctuating earnings for the foreseeable future, however, and they will need social safety nets that help them manage vulnerability to income shortfalls. More productive and inclusive jobs will help Ghana move to a second phase of structural transformation and develop into a modern middle-income economy. 410 0$aWorld Bank e-Library. 606 $aOccupations$zGhana 606 $aJob hunting$zGhana 607 $aGhana$xEconomic conditions 615 0$aOccupations 615 0$aJob hunting 676 $a337.6 700 $aHonorati$b Maddalena$01507548 702 $aSilva$b Sara Johansson de 801 0$bDJBF 801 1$bDJBF 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798867203321 996 $aExpanding Job Opportunities in Ghana$93738401 997 $aUNINA LEADER 03287nam 2200517 450 001 9910781637603321 005 20230725051237.0 010 $a0-19-161983-3 010 $a0-19-161982-5 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048538 035 $a(StDuBDS)AH24082436 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC771747 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL771747 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11204240 035 $a(OCoLC)753480364 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048538 100 $a20170109h20112011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aDisability and Isaiah's suffering servant /$fJeremy Schipper 210 1$aOxford, [England] :$cOxford University Press,$d2011. 210 4$dİ2011 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 225 1 $aBiblical Refigurations 311 $a0-19-959486-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 330 8 $aIn standard biblical interpretations the 'Suffering Servant' figure in Isaiah 53 is understood as an otherwise able bodied person who suffers. Jeremy Schipper challenges this reading and shows that the text describes the servant with language and imagery typically associated with disability in ancient Near Eastern literature.$bAlthough disability imagery is ubiquitous in the Hebrew Bible, characters with disabilities are not. The presence of the former does not guarantee the presence of the later. While interpreters explain away disabilities in specific characters, they celebrate the rhetorical contributions that disability imagery makes to the literary artistry of biblical prose and poetry, often as a trope to describe the suffering or struggles of a presumably nondisabled person or community. Thissituation contributes to the appearance (or illusion) of a Hebrew Bible that uses disability as a rich literary trope while disavowing the presence of figures or characters with disabilities. Isaiah 53 provides a wonderful example of this dynamic at work. The "Suffering Servant" figure in Isaiah 53 has captured the imagination of readers since very early in the history of biblical interpretation. Most interpreters understand the servant as an otherwise able bodied person who suffers. By contrast, Jeremy Schipper's study shows that Isaiah 53 describes the servant with language and imagery typically associated with disability in the Hebrew Bible and other ancient Near Easternliterature. 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