"United Nations ESCAP, Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific." "Economic development"--Cover. "This publication was coordinated ...within the framework of the United Nations Development Account project 'Strengthening the capacities of Latin America and Asia to develop and improve labour training systems and to protect workers against unemployment.'"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Foreword -- Introduction / Alberto Isgut, Jürgen Weller -- Part I. Strengthening unemployment protection institutions -- I. Unemployment protection systems: the experiences of developed and transition countries / Gerla van Breugel -- II. An analysis of unemployment protection in Latin America / Mario D. Velásquez Pinto -- III. Unemployment protection schemes in Asia / John Carter -- IV. Unemployment protection in Colombia: a proposal for reforming the layoff protection mechanism / Mario D. Velásquez Pinto -- V. Unemployment protection: a general layoff assistance fund for the Dominican Republic / Mario D. Velásquez Pinto -- VI. Unemployment protection in the Philippines / Sharon Faye Piza, Rosemarie Edillon, Michael Dominic del Mundo --- Part II: Building national technical and vocational education and training systems -- VII: Technical and vocational education and training: a review of experience in developed countries / Gerla van Breugel -- VIII. Creating effective, efficient and inclusive national systems of technical and vocational education and training in Latin America / Jürgen Weller, Sonia Gontero -- IX. The Asia-Pacific region's experience with national systems of technical and vocational education and training / Jenny Grainger, Liz Bowen-Clewley, Sarah Maclean, Jim Matheson -- X. Technical and vocational education and training institutions and programmes in Mexico / Ívico Ahumada Lobo -- XI. The Dominican Republic's agenda for development to 2030: coordination of public policies for technical and vocational education and training / Oscar Amargós -- XII. The national system of technical vocational education and training in the Philippines: a review and ideas for reforms / Aniceto C. Orbeta Jr., Emmanuel F. Esguerra.
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