Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to analyze the relationship between the rise of alternative work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet. The paper evaluates whether sectors that are technologically more dependent on information and communications technologies experienced disproportionately larger changes in their employment outcomes after telecommunications reforms were introduced. The main results point to a disproportionate increase in total employment, part-time work, and home-based work among information and communications technologies-intensive sectors after the implementation of telecommunications reforms. The analysis does not find a link between the incidence of temporary employment, self-employment, second job holding, and telecommunications reforms. The main results are robust to several specifications.

Internet --- Labor Market Arrangements --- Reforms --- Telecommunications

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Thirty case studies of health care reform across the country.

Health care reform --- Medical policy --- Medical care --- Health Care Reform. --- Services de sant --- Politique sanitaire --- Soins médicaux --- Healthcare Reform --- Health Care Reforms --- Healthcare Reforms --- Reform, Health Care --- Reform, Healthcare --- Reforms, Health Care --- Reforms, Healthcare --- Réforme --- Canada.

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Unemployment and underemployment are global development challenges. The situation in Ghana is no different. In 2016, it was projected that, given the country's growing youth population, 300,000 new jobs would need to be created each year to absorb the increasing numbers of unemployed young people. Yet the employment structure of the Ghanaian economy has not changed much from several decades ago. Most jobs are low skill, requiring limited cognitive or technology know-how, reflected in low earnings and work of lower quality. An additional challenge for Ghana is the need to create access to an adequate number of high-quality, productive jobs. This report seeks to increase knowledge about Ghana's job landscape and youth employment programs to assist policy makers and key stakeholders in identifying ways to improve the effectiveness of these programs and strengthen coordination among major stakeholders. Focused, strategic, short- to medium-term and long-term responses are required to address current unemployment and underemployment challenges. Effective coordination and synergies among youth employment programs are needed to avoid duplication of effort while the country's economic structure transforms. Effective private sector participation in skills development and employment programs is recommended. The report posits interventions in five priority areas that are not new but could potentially make an impact through scaling up: (1) agriculture and agribusiness, (2) apprenticeship (skills training), (3) entrepreneurship, (4) high-yielding areas (renewable energy+ solar, construction, tourism, sports, and green jobs), and (5) preemployment support services. Finally, with the fast-changing nature of work due to technology and artificial intelligence, Ghana needs to develop an education and training system that is versatile and helps young people to adapt and thrive in the twenty-first century world of work.

Disability --- Education reforms --- Employment program --- Labor policy --- Unemployment --- Youth employment

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

This guide is designed to assist all those who are responsible for providing or overseeing formal education or practical experience that forms part of the initial professional development of aspiring professional accountants, or the continuing professional development of professional accountants. It is particularly relevant to professional accountancy organizations. It is also intended for policy makers and regulators who determine which organizations are licensed to certify professional accountants and related specializations, for example, audit professionals.The purpose of the guide is to - increase understanding of the gap between the current skills of many accountants in some regions and the skills that are relevant in increasingly digitized and globalized economies;- convey the essential features of Competency-Based Accounting Education, Training, and Certification (CBAETC);- provide a common reference framework for organizations pursuing CBAETC and the consultants working with them;- assist countries in developing in-country plans and implementing in-country processes that produce accountants with higher-order skills relevant to their economy's rapidly evolving needs; and- improve financial reporting, auditing, and regulation.This guide complements and builds on International Education Standards (IES) of the International Accounting Education Standards Board (IAESB).

Accounting --- Accounting Education --- Certification Program --- Competence --- Competency Maps --- Education Reforms --- Initial Professional Development --- Learning Outcomes --- Lifelong Learning --- Professional Accounting --- Reforms

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

The paper is based on the premise that effective institutional reforms for service delivery require a carefully-considered institutional "fitting" process as opposed to transplantation of "international best practices." The paper asks how the specific institutional contexts of a given country limit options for service delivery reforms, and therefore how a feasible set of reform options may vary systematically across countries.

Banks & Banking Reform --- E-Government --- Infrastructure services --- Institutional reforms --- Management reforms --- Parliamentary Government --- Primary education --- Public Sector Corruption & Anticorruption Measures --- Social Development --- Social service delivery --- Subnational Economic Development