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Singletary, Loretta – 1990
Controversy between two opposing factions have confused rural development policy formulation. Infrastructure advocates believe that the improvement of highways and sewer systems, as well as the provision of industrial park sites and industrial recruitment, are the keys to successful rural economic growth. Human resource development advocates…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economic Progress, Human Resources, Labor Force Development

Ashton, D.; Green, F.; Sung, J.; James, D. – Journal of Education and Work, 2002
Examination of the government role in labor force development in Singapore, Taiwan, and South Korean identified strategies and structures enabling the "East Asian Miracle" of economic development, including strong states with high autonomy regarding capital and labor, super-ministries linking institutions, and strong central control of…
Descriptors: Centralization, Economic Development, Foreign Countries, Government Role
Brown, Charles – 1989
Recent trends indicate increased interest in the education and training of the labor force. However, information in the extent of on-the-job training (OJT) is complicated by conceptual difficulties, such as the informal nature of much OJT, lack of reliable cost data on formal training, and the fact that many studies based on stratified samples…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Corporate Education, Costs, Data Collection
BCEL Newsletter for the Business Community, 1988
Two significant reports that were published recently have important implications for policymakers, employers, and literacy workers. "Workforce 2000," commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor, is intended to help shape federal workplace policies and programs as the nation moves toward the next century. The report documents labor patterns and…
Descriptors: Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Economic Development, Employment Projections
Choate, Pat – 1982
Although several fundamental forces are changing the American economy and the American work force, three conditions are pivotal--demographic change, technological change coupled with shifting conditions of competition, and the continuing inadequacies of both public- and private-sector employment and training policies. The employment and training…
Descriptors: Coordination, Economic Change, Educational Cooperation, Educational Legislation
Lall, Sanjaya – 1990
Industrial expansion remains essential for the development and structural transformation of most sub-Saharan African economies. The advantages of industrialization go beyond the provision of manufactured goods and the diversification of exports to the modernization of society. Growth rates in formal manufacturing tell little about the economic…
Descriptors: Career Education, Developing Nations, Economic Development, Foreign Countries
Vaughan, Roger J. – 1989
By embracing education as an economic development tool, policy makers adopt a new economic metaphor--a new way of understanding how the economy works and identifying determinants of development. Development policy has shifted focus, from providing incentives for the accumulation of physical capital to emphasizing investments in human capital. Most…
Descriptors: Economic Development, Economics, Economics Education, Educational Policy
Cappelli, Peter – 1992
The research on the demand for skills in the U.S. economy is split over the issue of whether technological change has tended to increase or decrease job skill requirements. The question of whether job skill requirements have been rising is important to public policy debates concerning the skill gap, wage inequality, and the changing quality of…
Descriptors: Clerical Workers, Economic Research, Employment Qualifications, Job Analysis
Cummens, John A. – 1981
The issues of harmonization and autonomy as they affect vocational education and manpower policy development and the implementation of program service delivery are analyzed. Some of the background issues that have affected the relationship of vocational education and manpower, in particular the Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA), are…
Descriptors: Coordination, Educational Cooperation, Educational Policy, Federal Government

Tuijnman, Albert C. – International Review of Education/Internationale Zeitschrift fuer Erziehungswissenschaft/Revue Internationale de Pedagogie, 1992
Describes factors contributing to 1980s expansion of adult vocational education (AE) and training in Europe, reviewing demographic, economic, political, and social factors. Discusses ramifications of emerging decentralization in educational decision making. Examines potential conflict between emphasis on economic and labor market objectives of AE…
Descriptors: Adult Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Decentralization, Economic Factors
Goosman, William F. – 1995
This report is part of the Investing in People Project, in which states worked to develop and implement work force preparation and training strategies to meet the challenge of a competitive global economy. The choices that states, firms, and individuals must make in order to enjoy a high standard of living are discussed. In order to achieve a high…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Education Work Relationship, Educational Needs
Stevens, David W. – 1992
State programs offer greatest promise for practical strategic actions to enhance the quality of the nation's adult work force. Three steps in the recursive process that create a model of state action are as follows: (1) documentation of the platform for action, which consists of current adult work force attributes and current institutional…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Decision Making, Futures (of Society), Government Role
McKeown-Moak, Mary P. – 2000
This is the second in an annual series of reports that summarize financing trends affecting higher education. The report notes that state appropriations to higher education reached $56.7 billion in fiscal year (FY) 2000, an increase of 7 percent over FY 1999, and the largest ever appropriated by states for higher education. The 1999 legislative…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Computer Uses in Education, Distance Education, Educational Finance
Selleck, Laura – 1982
Implications of new government approaches to manpower planning and its relationship to higher education in Ontario are examined. In January 1980 the Council of Ontario Universities released a background paper on the employment of university graduates, which reviewed the current major economic and demographic analyses of youth unemployment, the…
Descriptors: College Graduates, College Planning, Education Work Relationship, Educational Policy
Ni Cheallaigh, Martina, Ed.; Doets, Cees, Ed.; Hake, Barry J., Ed.; Westerhuis, Anneke, Ed. – 2002
A study was conducted to assess the extent to which lifelong learning strategies are being implemented in vocational education and training (VET) in the Netherlands. Lifelong learning was examined from these three perspectives: (1) the policy formation process of lifelong learning, including developing policy instruments and specific measures by…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Continuing Education, Curriculum, Developed Nations