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How Skills Will Be Crucial As We Adapt To The Post-Covid World

The Horizons Tracker

Last year online learning platform Coursera released their first Global Skills Index to try and understand the changing nature of skills development around the world. This surge not only reflects the ongoing interest in digital skills development, but also some of the softer skills that I’ve identified as key in past articles.

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How Workplace Equality Can Drive The Economy (With A Little Help From AI)

The Horizons Tracker

This would allow them to explore how balance in the workplace contributes towards GDP. Nonetheless, barriers to employment clearly still exist, ranging from blatant discrimination to a lack of educational opportunities for certain sections of society. “Over the last 50 years, more than a quarter of all growth in the U.S.

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Low-Skilled Immigration Is Needed To Overcome The Western Worker Crunch

The Horizons Tracker

Ignoring the need While politicians increasingly like to adopt a hard line against immigration, the reality is that most developed countries are in dire need of it. Indeed, while Dr. Ugur Sahin was lauded as an immigrant who helped to develop the Covid vaccine, as a car factory worker, his father would have received far fewer laurels.

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Women and the economy: an opportunity for growth

Strategy Driven

As Christine Lagarde, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund states: if women were employed at the same rate as men, GDP would increase by 5 percent in the United States, by 9 percent in Japan and by 27 percent in India. But let’s go further on education. Gender inequality is a reality.

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More Women in the Workforce Could Raise GDP by 5%

Harvard Business Review

While its benchmarks for national gender gaps on economic, political, educational, and health-based criteria are extremely valuable, it is essentially a compilation of the barriers to women's advancement. Women are the primary caregivers for children, the elderly, and the sick, and this burden hampers their economic development.

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Working Mothers Are Important Contributors to the U.S. Labor Force

HR Digest

Similarly, 42 percent of working mothers would look for higher pay, and 29 percent work seek additional training to boost their careers. There are other factors to consider when it comes to working mothers as well, such as nativity and education. Such circumstances make a working mother’s challenges more evident.

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The One Type of Leader Who Can Turn Around a Failing School

Harvard Business Review

We interviewed these 411 leaders, as well as those who work for them, analyzed their education, background, and experience and recorded their actions and impact using 64 investment variables and 24 performance measures over seven years. Academies have devolved decision-making powers enabling them to bypass local government.)