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Skills, Not Just Diplomas

Paperback • 2011 • English

Skills, Not Just Diplomas

By World Bank

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Future growth in the countries in Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) will increasingly depend on innovation. And innovation requires skills. This makes it important, as countries plan for recovery, to undertake reforms to reduce the skills shortages that the previous growth episode exposed. Education systems have a very important role to play in creating the right skills. But education systems in the region fall short of the demands of their economies in two major ways. The first is that desp...Show more

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9780821380963

Publisher

World Bank Publications

Published year

2011

Language

English

Original title

Skills, Not Just Diplomas

Format

Paperback

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