Download or read book Agora XI written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Agora Thessaloniki project was established by Cedefop in 1997. The purpose of an Agora, three of which take place in Thessaloniki each year, is to provide a space for researchers to engage in debate with political/government representatives and social partners about a current topic ... Agora XI dealing with the learning region is to be jointly organised by Cedra and Agora teams ... Proposed issues to be debated at Agora XI 'Promoting the learning region - education and training agencies taking a leading role in promoting innovation on a regional basis.
Download or read book Lifelong Learning Bibliography written by European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first issue of the semi-annual lifelong learning bibliography contains references to output from January to June 2001, a time of intense debate and reflection on lifelong learning in Europe. It also includes monographs, chapters, journal articles, legal texts, Internet sites, and CD-ROMs dealing with lifelong learning at European, international, and European Commission member state levels. The 506-item bibliography is structured under headings of current interest and by the situation in member states and the candidate countries. The Key Themes category includes skill development; human resources development; learning innovation; accreditation of prior learning; guidance and counseling; and community-based learning. Topics under Transversal Themes are active citizenship, employability, and partnership. The category, Situation at European Level, covers European policy, national policy documents, European Union/EEA countries, and central and eastern European countries. The category, Situation at International Level, covers international organizations, Africa, Asia, Australia, United States, and Canada. In each category, literature is presented in alphabetical order by title, showing all important fields to enable identification of suitable documents. For titles not in English or French, a rough translation is provided. Documents have been indexed using the European Training Thesaurus. Descriptors are listed under each publication. An annex lists, by country, members of the documentary information network with address, Web address, and contact person. (YLB)
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development LEED Managing Decentralisation A New Role for Labour Market Policy written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003-10-24 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To ensure that people's needs are met, governments decentralise the way policies are designed and implemented. This conference proceedings presents the points of view from a variety of countries in the area of labour market policy.
Download or read book Creating Cooperation written by Pepper D. Culpepper and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Creating Cooperation, Pepper D. Culpepper explains the successes and failures of human capital reforms adopted by the French and German governments in the 1990s. Employers and employees both stand to gain from corporate investment in worker skills, but uncertainty and mutual distrust among companies doom many policy initiatives to failure. Higher skills benefit society as a whole, so national governments want to foster them. However, business firms often will not invest in training that makes their workers more attractive to other employers, even though they would prefer having better-skilled workers.Culpepper sees in European training programs a challenge typical of contemporary problems of public policy: success increasingly depends on the ability of governments to convince private actors to cooperate with each other. In the United States as in Europe, he argues, policy-makers can achieve this goal only by incorporating the insights of private information into public policy. Culpepper demonstrates that the lessons of decentralized cooperation extend to industrial and environmental policies. In the final chapter, he examines regional innovation programs in the United Kingdom and the clean-up of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States--a domestic problem that required the coordination of disparate agencies and stakeholders.
Download or read book The Economy as a Polity The Political Constitution of Contemporary Capitalism written by Christian Joerges and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-09-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The debate about so-called economic globalization has reached a new phase. The hegemony of neo-liberal thinking has ended, in the face of both the increased and increasingly effective resistance to the social consequences of neo-liberal market-making - rising inequality and insecurity throughout the world - and the visibly dysfunctional effects of lack of regulation - currency and stock market crashes, among others. Thus, the story about 'the rise and fall of market society', which was first told in these terms by Karl Polanyi sixty years ago, is about to receive a new chapter. In this light, this volume offers a novel perspective on the interaction between states and markets. In contrast to much of current theoretical wisdom, we hold, with Polanyi, that markets cannot even be consistently thought of as self-regulating. Markets are always constituted by framework conditions that cannot be set by the markets themselves. The range and scope of market rules requires some agreement, or at least acceptance, for economic exchange to be working at all; in democratic societies, these rules are at least theoretically always subject to political debate and decision. To put the issue in theoretical terms: even the most pure version of economic liberalism always entails at the same time a political philosophy. This volume, thus, proposes to understand contemporary capitalism by regarding the economy as a polity, as an arrangement that is always constituted by some collective agreements about its mode of operation. Such theoretical position on its own, though, is insufficient to explain the workings of capitalism once and for all. Historical experiences with capitalism have led to transformations that require new angles of analysis. It is in the nature of the struggles over the embedding of markets that their outcomes are subject to historical contingency and cannot be completely known beforehand. Beyond a review of the theoretical tools at hand, therefore, the analysis of the contemporary constellation of capitalism, also requires an understanding of its recent transformations. This is the second task to which this volume is devoted - through analyses of the current state of regulation of labour and money and through investigations of the historical development and novel forms of the mode of embedding markets. While focusing on the renewal of the analysis of contemporary capitalism, the volume also points to fruitful directions of institutional or policy change and provides perspectives for a much-needed political renewal, with a particular focus on the European Union as a novel polity embedding the European economy.
Download or read book Systems Institutional Frameworks and Processes for Early Identification of Skill Needs written by Olga Strietska-Ilina and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The publication gives an overview of diverse systemic, institutional, political and other contextual arrangements across countries and of different approaches in research and analysis performed by different institutions involved in early identification of skill needs at various levels.--Publisher's description.
Download or read book Varieties of Capitalism written by Peter A. Hall and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-08-30 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the most fundamental differences among the political economies of the developed world? How do national institutional differences condition economic performance, public policy, and social well-being? Will they survive the pressures for convergence generated by globalization and technological change? These have long been central questions in comparative political economy. This book provides a new and coherent set of answers to them. Building on the new economics of organization, the authors develop an important new theory about which differences among national political economies are most significant for economic policy and performance. Drawing on a distinction between 'liberal' and 'coordinated' market economies, they argue that there is more than one path to economic success. Nations need not converge to a single Anglo-American model. They develop a new theory of 'comparative institutionaladvantage' that transforms our understanding of international trade, offers new explanations for the response of firms and nations to the challenges of globalization, and provides a new theory of national interest to explain the conduct of nations in international relations. The analysis brings the firm back into the centre of comparative political economy. It provides new perspectives on economic and social policy-making that illuminate the role of business in the development of the welfare state and the dilemmas facing those who make economic policy in the contemporary world. Emphasizing the 'institutional complementarities' that link labour relations, corporate finance, and national legal systems, the authors bring interdisciplinary perspectives to bear on issues of strategic management, economic performance, and institutional change. This pathbreaking work sets new agendas in the study of comparative political economy. As such, it will be of value to academics and graduate students in economics, business, and political science, as well as to many others with interests in international relations, social policy-making, and the law.
Download or read book Vocational Training European Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Managing Decentralisation written by Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decentralising labour market policy is a delicate and challenging subject of political debate. Does decentralisation really enable co-ordination of policies? At the local level, how do we make the best use of decentralised powers? How can greater flexibility be provided in managing policies while still guaranteeing efficiency and accountability? To enhance responsiveness to citizens needs, governments increasingly decentralise the way policies are designed and implemented. In the labour market policy area, many stakeholders, from business and local government to community groups and NGOs have been receptive. The OECD invited leading experts and experienced policy makers and practitioners to address these questions and share their experiences in dealing with such issues. This report, supported by statistical data, summarises the lessons learnt from their experiences. It is for researchers, leading experts, business communities, economists in government circles and NGOs.
Download or read book valuation des politiques r gionales de formation professionnelle 1997 1999 written by France. Comité de coordination des programmes régionaux d'apprentissage et de formation professionnelle continue and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book French books in print anglais written by Electre and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 1798 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book EUDISED European Educational Research Yearbook 1997 98 written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Bibliographic Guide to Government Publications 2000 written by Gale Group and published by Macmillan Reference USA. This book was released on 2001 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revisiting Technical and Vocational Education in Sub Saharan Africa written by David Atchoarena and published by UNESCO. This book was released on 2002 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Differences in historical, political, cultural, and economic contexts in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) account for wide variations in structures, operating conditions, and outcomes in technical and vocational education (TVE). This diversity is associated with glaring disparities, so in examining policy trends and the reconstruction of training systems particular attention is focused on innovations in an effort to identify promising initiatives likely to contribute to the establishment of consistent TVE systems, closely linked with the world of work and involving labor market stakeholders. Some common emerging trends in TVE include the following: (1) a shift in the policy focus from inputs to outputs; (2) the use of new financing and certification mechanisms; (3) the involvement of social partners in governance; greater autonomy for institutions; (4) the promotion of private providers and company-based training; and (5) an increasing interest in the informal sector and skills development for poverty reduction. Issues addressed include these: (1) an overview of TVE systems in 10 SSA countries; (2) reviewing various models currently in place; (3) documenting relationships between African TVE systems and policies and donor intervention and traditions in TVE; (4) identifying reasons why certain reforms are facing implementation difficulties; analyzing specific innovations; (5) drawing lessons on the implementation of the reform agenda and its impact on TVE systems; and (6) discussing possible directions for future donor support. (Includes 167 references.) (MO).
Download or read book New Acquisitions written by Unesco Institute for Education. Documentation Centre and Library and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book OECD Framework for the Evaluation of SME and Entrepreneurship Policies and Programmes written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Framework provides policy makers with a concrete, explicit, practical and accessible guide to best practice evaluation methods for SME and entrepreneurship policies and programmes, drawing upon examples from a wide range of OECD countries.
Download or read book G K Hall Interdisciplinary Bibliographic Guide to Black Studies written by Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
