Materials

Video Presentation

The Importance of Vocational Training
Dr. Sam Pitroda
Video Presentation

Powerpoint Presentations

The Knowledge Economy and Education and Training in South Asia: A Mapping Exercise of Available Survey Data 
Michelle Riboud
Powerpoint Presentation

Secondary Education in India – Investing in the Future
Amit Dar and Kin Bing Wu
Powerpoint Presentation

Higher Education: Current Status and Future Policy Directions
Harsha Atrupane
Powerpoint Presentation

Secondary Education and the Labor Force: An International Perspective
Robin Horn
Powerpoint Presentation

Secondary Education in Pakistan: The Key Issues, Challenges and Reform Framework
Tahseen Sayed
Powerpoint Presentation

What Employers Want
Mikhail I. Islam
Powerpoint Presentation

What Employers Want: A View of the VET in India
Ravi Pillai
Powerpoint Presentation

Promoting Training for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises: Mexico´s Experience with the CIMO Program
Roberto Flores Luna
Powerpoint Presentation

What Employers Want: Global and Regional Perspectives on In-Service Skills Upgrading and Training Policy
Hong Tan
Powerpoint Presentation

What Employers Want: Malaysia's Human Resources Development Fund
Datuk Yau de Piyau
Powerpoint Presentation

Skill Development in India: The Vocational Education and Training System
Amit Dar
Powerpoint Presentation

Current Status and Future Directions of Technical Education and Vocational Training in Sri Lanka
Prof. Dayantha Wijeyesekera, Dr. T. A. Piyasiri, and Mr. Earle Fernando
Powerpoint Presentation

Vocational Training in India
Dr. Ashok Kolaskar
Powerpoint Presentation

Challenges For TVET Sector: Pakistan Perspective
Khushnood Akhtar Lashari
Powerpoint Presentation

National Skills Development and Market Linkages Program in Afghanistan
Powerpoint Presentation

Vocational Education and Training System in Bangladesh: An Assessment
Shaikh Ahmed
Powerpoint Presentation

TVET System in Afghanistan
Dr. Najib Khwaja Omary
Powerpoint Presentation

 

Skill Implications of Globalization and Knowledge Economy 
Document and compare trends in the education and training of the workforce in the region, as well as associated changes in the earnings of different education and demographic groups.
  
The Knowledge Economy and Education and Training in South Asia: A Mapping Exercise of Available Survey Data 
Michelle Riboud, Yevgeniya Savchenko and Hong Tan. Draft Paper, World Bank, 2006
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Making Education Relevant to the World of Work  
International experience with secondary education reforms and innovations as well as discussion on the education sector in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. 
 
Education. Chapter from Pakistan Economic Survey 2005-2006
Pakistan Ministry of Finance, 2006
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Expanding Opportunities and Building Competencies for Young People: A New Agenda for Secondary Education
World Bank, 2005
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India and the Knowledge Economy Leveraging Strength and Opportunities
World Bank, 2005
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Meeting the Challenges of Secondary Education in Latin America and East Asia: Improving Efficiency and Resource Mobilization
Emanuela di Gropello.  World Bank, 2006
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Pakistan Government Education Reform Strategy
Presented by Federal Education Minister of Pakistan. Pakistan Development Forum, 2005
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Simplified Implementation Completion Report: Second Development Policy Credit for the Government of Punjab Province
World Bank, 2006
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Treasures of the Education System in Sri Lanka: Restoring Performance, Expanding Opportunities and Enhancing Prospects
World Bank, 2005
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What Employers Want
Evidence from firm surveys from around the world and within the region about the skill demands of employers and various schemes for meeting the demand, including public policy to encourage private sector training. Highlighting the experiences of the Human Resource Development Fund in Malaysia in stimulating enterprise-based training, the CIMO experience in promoting training for informal enterprises in Mexico, and employer initiatives from Bangladesh and India.

Effectiveness of government’s occupational skills development strategies for small- and medium-scale enterprises: A case study of Korea.
Kye Woo Lee, International Journal of Educational Development , 2005
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Evaluating Training Programs for Small and Medium Enterprises: Lessons from Mexico
Hong Tan and Gladys L. Acevedo. Policy Research Working Paper Series, World Bank, 2005
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Malaysia’s Human Resource Development Fund: An Evaluation of Its Effects on Training and Productivity
Hong Tan. Unpublished Paper, World Bank, 2005
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Mexico: In-firm Training for the Knowledge Economy
Hong Tan and Gladys Lopez Acevedo.  Background paper World Bank Latin America & Caribbean Region Flagship report, 2002
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The Skills Challenge of New Technology: Training, Technology, and Productivity Growth in Malaysian Manufacturing in the 1990s
Hong Tan. World Bank, 2005
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Matching Skills to Markets and Budgets: VET Systems
Explore the VET systems of countries in the region, focusing on issues such as the appropriate roles of the public and private sector in providing and/or financing training; quality assurance; standards; monitoring and evaluation; etc., and benchmarking against international experiences.
 
The Bangladesh Vocational Education and Training System: An Assessment
Draft Document, World Bank, 2006
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Skill Development in India:  The Vocational Education and Training System
Draft Document, World Bank, 2006
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Training and Labor Market Outcomes in Sri Lanka
Hong Tan and Sunil Chandrasiri. World Bank Institute Working Paper, World Bank, 2004
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Additional Materials

The importance of secondary, vocational and higher education to development
DFID Briefing, Practice Paper, 2006
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Integrating TVET into the Knowledge Economy: Reform and Challenges in the Middle East and North Africa
World Bank and European Training Foundation, 2005
Full Text Document

Investment Climate, Capabilities and Firm Performance: Evidence from the World Business Environment Survey
Geeta Batra and Andrew H. W. Stone.  World Bank, 2004
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Knowledge and Skills Development in Developing and Transitional Economies- Executive Summary
Andy Hargreaves and Paul Shaw.  World Bank, 2005
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Lifelong Learning and Training policies in Latin America: Main Findings and Policy Leads from the Case Studies
World Bank, 2005
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Skills Development in Sub- Saharan Africa
World Bank, 2004
Full Text Document