Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica

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Education and Training Many Jamaican teachers have emigrated and established an excellent reputation overseas. There is an opportunity for private schools and colleges to offer a high quality education right here in Jamaica to an international clientele. St. George’s University in the Eastern Caribbean that was sold for over US$200 million a few years ago had originally sought to establish itself in Jamaica but did not find a welcoming Government. Today private colleges are a booming business in Jamaica. The University College of the Caribbean is the most obviously successful but there are many others. We need to create many others. There is an obvious and untapped market in the Jamaican Diaspora where many families would like their foreign-born children to be schooled and socialized in traditional Jamaican values to counteract the negative influences that the public school systems in North America and the United Kingdom seem to offer. There is an opportunity here. 110
Technology The recent successes of the teams of young programmers from the Northern Caribbean University in the prestigious Microsoft Imagine Cup competition only hint at the potential talent that resides in Jamaica in the area of software development. Wide-scale training in this area would be a good investment by any government. Summary: The appropriate model for a prosperous future The state and the private sector need to work closely together to educate and train a productive and competitive workforce. We must build on our strengths by developing the areas of competence that we have already identified. Education and training policy must be market driven by a bottom-up, “open source” approach that ensures that it meets the needs and interests of new generations of Jamaicans. I know of no country that has educated its people and stayed poor, and conversely, I know of no country that has failed to educate its people and become wealthy. An educated Jamaica will not remain poor. 111
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Labour Market Forum 2010 Jobs for G
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12:00 p.m. - 12:20 p.m. Mr. Benthan
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Gladstone Anthony Hutchinson, Phd D
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Professor Rosalea Hamilton Ba (Hons
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Mr. Wayne Chen Wayne Chen is the Ch
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Mr. Benthan H. Hussey, B.A., M.Sc.
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Jamaica Producers Group, Caribbean
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Introduction In a nutshell the labo
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evenues which led to the ending of
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Despite the aforementioned challeng
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Hence, while probably a moral and n
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in the brighter promise of the futu
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As Minister of Labour with portfoli
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e-launching its Labour Market Infor
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Professional Gaps in the Labour Mar
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“Jobs for Growth: The Trade Union
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perhaps most importantly, he argued
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and the equity considerations which
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to break with the system. It is equ
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jobs, quality jobs, decent work are
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pay and productivity, important fac
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formal contracts and work is usuall
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The rise of new Keynesian thinking
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“The Role of MSMEs in Economic Ex
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Development seen as the process of
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Growth of domestic capital at a fas
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⇒ It is this tacit knowledge that
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Traditional sector is not generally
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⇒ Significant investment in capac
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