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An Overview |
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The
human development approach is
considered the most appropriate for
the realization of sustainable
development
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Education policy, research and
development policy ,are the most
important factors in deciding
the potential competitiveness of
nations.
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Microeconomic focus
on enabling poor women to obtain
access to credit
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Human
development support policy to create
skills
needed for global economies
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Mechanisms for
linking job vacancies and skills .
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Continuous
up-dating of the rules for accurate
and up-to-date data on the various
alterations related to the labor
market
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Making the job and
employment mechanisms more effective in the
different countries through the
modern economy. |
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Microfinance |
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Micro-finance was pioneered by
specialized NGOs and commercial
banks such as the Grameen Bank
stresses the fact that hunger is not
caused by a lack of food. It is
rather caused by a lack of
purchasing power, and poverty is not
the root cause of hunger. |
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Employability and the quality of human capital |
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The
concept of employability is a good
shorthand on how to prepare the
labor force for the new division of
labor, the new forms of organization
of production and the new types of
labor contracts during stabilization .
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Effective retraining. A system of
continuous, life-long, education
providing for successively higher
levels of skill consistent with the
requirements of the world of work
and development.
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Innovation in education. This should
be at the same time cost-effective
but high yielding in terms of
quality and services to development. |
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Some
experimental models, e.g. the
community schools in Egypt,
represent effective solutions for
exclusion from basic education as
well as deliver significant
improvement in educational quality
for the poor. |
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Education and vocational training |
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Education and vocational training
systems are essential components of
a sustainable social security
system, as they contribute to
reducing risks and vulnerability to
globalization. |
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This
can be accomplished through
developing a comprehensive strategy
that links the education system with
the training system, the public and
private sector in view of emerging
labor market requirement |
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Improving performance at all levels
of education and training by
focusing on standards rather than
delivery processes and adding
coherence to curriculum and
assessment. |
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Continuous training
programs, while developing incentive
systems that encourage teachers to
invest in their training; reviewing
current curricula at all levels,
making them better suited for a
knowledge-based economy; improving
efficiency by identifying incentives
for institutions and teachers.
(Fakhro, M., 2003) |
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More Resources |
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Abu
Nasr, Julinda, et al. (1985)
Women,
Employment and Development in the
Arab World. (Berlin:
Mouton Publishers).
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Canadian International Development
Agency(1996)
Globalization
and Gender - Development
Perspectives and Interventions.
Discussion
paper (Canada:
CIDA)
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UNFPA (2000)
Working to empower women
(New York:
UNFPA)
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Sirageldin,
Ismail and Al-Khaled, Rana (1997) The
Challenges of Globalization and
Human Resource Development in the
Arab World: Myth and Reality
(Cairo: Economic
Research Forum (ERF)
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Weidman, C. Jean and
Zohra Merabet (1993)
Egyptian Women and Micro
enterprises: The Invisible
Entrepreneurs The Gemini
Report. Bethesda, MD: Alternatives
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