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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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  • Van Adams, Arvil*Goldfarb, Robert*Kelly, Terence, 1992. "How the macroeconomic environment affects human resource development," Policy Research Working Paper Series 828, The World Bank.
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