Jobs for development : challenges and solutions in different country settings / edited by Gordon Betcherman and Martin Rama.

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Book
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English
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First edition.
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  • Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2016.
  • ©2016
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xx, 302 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    "His book is a sequel to the World Bank's World Development Report 2013: Jobs. The central message of that report was that job creation is at the heart of development. Jobs raise living standards and lift people out of poverty, they contribute to gains in aggregate productivity, and they may even foster social cohesion. In doing so, jobs may have spillovers beyond the private returns they offer to those who hold them. Poverty reduction is arguably a public good, making everybody better off; higher productivity spreads across co-workers, clusters, and cities; and social cohesion improves the outcomes of collective decision-making. But which jobs make the greatest contribution to development and what policies can facilitate the creation of more of these jobs? There is no universal answer - it depends on the country's level of development, demography, natural endowments, and institutions. This volume explores the diversity of jobs challenges and solutions through case studies of seven developing countries. These countries, drawn from four continents, represent seven different contexts - a small island nation (St. Lucia), a resource-rich country (Papua New Guinea), agrarian (Mozambique), urbanizing (Bangladesh), and formalizing (Mexico) economies, as well as young (Tunisia) and aging (Ukraine) populations. Using methods drawn from several branches of economics and the social sciences more broadly and analyzing a wide range of data, the authors show the different ways in which jobs have contributed to social and economic development in the countries they have studied and how they can contribute in the future. The policy priorities vary accordingly. They often extend well beyond traditional labor market instruments to include policy areas not typically considered in national growth strategies."--Publisher's website.
    Notes
    • "The chapters in this volume were orginally commissioned as background papers for the 2013 edition of the World Development Report (WDR), the flagship publication of the World Bank"--Acknowledgements.
    • "The authors benefited from early discussions held at a workshop at the World Bank in Washington, DC in December 2012"--Acknowledgements.
    Bibliographic references
    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • The job creation challenge : across developing country settings / Gordon Betcherman and Martin Rama
    • Mozambique : jobs and welfare in an agrarian economy / Sam Jones and Finn Tarp
    • Bangladesh : jobs and growth in an urbanizing economy / Mahabub Hossain, Binayak Sen, and Yasuyuki Sawada
    • Papua New Guinea : jobs, poverty, and resources / Colin Filer ... [et al.]
    • St Lucia : jobs and integration of a small-island nation / Andrew S. Downes, Edwin St Catherine, and Ezra Jn Baptiste
    • Mexico : formalizing the labor market / Gabriel Martinez, Nelly Aguilera, and Martha Miranda
    • Tunisia : jobs to combat high youth unemployment / Abdel-Rahmen El Lahga, Mohamed Ali Marouani, and Rim Ben Ayed Mouelhi
    • Jobs for an aging society / Olga Kupets.
    ISBN
    • 0198754841 (hardback)
    • 9780198754848 (hardback)
    LCCN
    2016935367
    OCLC
    962254059
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