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More and better jobs in South Asia /
South Asia has created nearly 800,000 jobs per month during the last decade. Robust economic growth in large parts of the region has created better jobs -- those that pay higher wages for wage workers and reduce poverty for the self-employed, the largest segment of the region's employed. Going...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, D.C. :
World Bank,
2011.
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| Colección: | South Asia development matters.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Overview. South Asia's track record
- Determinants of job quality and the employment challenge
- Improving an inconducive business environment
- Improving workers' skills
- Reforming labor market institutions
- Creating jobs in conflict-affected areas
- Annex 1A: Summary statistics on South Asian countries
- Annex 1B: Definition of key labor market terms
- Annex 1C: What is a "better" job, and which jobs are "better"?
- 2. Growth and job quality in South Asia. Economic growth in South Asia
- Sources of future growth
- The track record on employment
- The urgency of reform
- Annex 2A: Methodology for decomposing growth
- Annex 2B: Sources of average annual growth in output per worker
- Annex 2C: Shares of agriculture, industry, and services in employment and GDP
- Annex 2D: Methodology and data sources for labor force projections
- Annex 2E: Poverty rates and the number of working poor in South Asia
- Annex 2F: Analysis of poverty and unemployment in India
- 3. A profile of South Asia at work. Overview of employment and labor force participation in South Asia
- The nature of employment
- Where are the better jobs?
- Who holds better jobs?
- Annex 3A: Definitions and criteria used in profile of South Asia at work
- Annex 3B: Regional employment patterns
- 4. What is preventing firms from creating more and better jobs? Methodological framework
- Constraints in the urban formal sector
- Constraints in the rural nonfarm and informal sectors
- Demand-side policy options
- Constraints facing potential firm entrants: Business entry regulations
- Annex 4A: Business environment constraints in high- and low-income states in India
- Annex 4B: Tax rates as a constraint to firms
- Annex 4C: Constraints facing nonbenchmark firms
- Annex 4D: Access to finance as a constraint to firms
- Annex 4E: Policy options for increasing access to finance
- 5. Opening the door to better jobs by improving education and skills. Education and skills in South Asian labor markets
- Education and access to better jobs
- The education challenge
- The next 20 years: Can South Asian countries improve the educational attainment of their labor forces?
- Addressing disadvantages before school: The role of early childhood development
- Primary and secondary education
- Tertiary education and preemployment training systems
- On-the-job training
- Annex 5A: Additional tables and figures on education and skills
- Annex 5B: Projections of the educational attainment of South Asia's population and labor force
- 6. The role of labor market regulations, institutions, and programs. Labor market institutions, policies, and programs in the formal sector
- Labor market institutions, policies, and programs in the informal sector
- Annex 6A: Additional tables and figures on labor market regulations and institutions
- 7. Creating jobs in conflict-affected areas. Characteristics and intensity of armed conflict in South Asia
- Constraints to job creation in conflict-affected areas
- Armed conflict and labor markets
- Facilitating private sector job creation
- Education service delivery in conflict situations
- Labor market policies and programs
- A jobs transition path in conflict zones
- Annex 7A: Definitions of high-conflict and low-conflict regions in selected South Asian countries
- Annex 7B: Labor market characteristics and educational attainment in high-conflict and low-conflict areas of selected South Asian countries.