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How the macroeconomic environment affects human resource development

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Van Adams, Arvil
Goldfarb, Robert
Kelly, Terence

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Do inward-focused development strategies reduce competition in factor markets and incentives for more efficient skills development? Do outward-focused development strategies improve them? The authors compared vocational education and training systems in six developing countries in the 1980s. They found that an outward orientation encourages more efficient development of human resources. Protectionist trade regimes that shelter producers from global competition produce price distortions in domestic capital and labor markets that affect the efficient use of resources in skills development. Structural adjustment programs that address these distortions expand incentives for private training and for more efficient use of public resources in skills development.

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Paper provided by The World Bank in its series Policy Research Working Paper Series with number 828.

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Keywords: ICT Policy and Strategies; Environmental Economics&Policies; Economic Theory&Research; Health Economics&Finance; Banks&Banking Reform;

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  1. Krueger, Anne O, 1990. "Asian Trade and Growth Lessons," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 80(2), pages 108-12, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  2. Rajapatirana, Sarath, 1988. "Foreign trade and economic development: Sri Lanka's experience," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 16(10), pages 1143-1157, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
  3. Steve Haggblade & Carl Liedholm & Donald C. Mead, 1986. "The Effect of Policy and Policy Reforms on Non-Agricultural Enterprises and Employment in Developing Countries: A Review of Past Experiences," International Development Working Papers 27, Department of Agricultural Economics, Michigan State University. [Downloadable!]
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  4. Adams, Arvil V. & Schwartz, Antoine, 1988. "Vocational education and economic environments : conflict or convergence?," Policy Research Working Paper Series 70, The World Bank. [Downloadable!]
  5. Balassa, Bela, 1988. "The interaction of factor and product market distortions in developing countries," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 449-463, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
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