Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica

More documents

Recommendations

Info

Gladstone Anthony Hutchinson, Phd Dr. Gladstone Hutchinson was appointed Director-General of the Planning Institute of Jamaica (PIOJ) on July 5, 2010. The PIOJ is a national agency under the Office of the Prime Minister with responsibility for leading the formulation of policy on economic and social issues and managing external cooperation to achieve sustainable development for Jamaica. The Institute initiates and coordinates the development of policies, plans, and programs for the country’s economic, financial, social, cultural, and physical development and undertakes research on national development issues. It is the lead agency for the implementation of Jamaica’s national development plan, Vision 2030 Jamaica – “Jamaica, the place of choice to live, work, raise families, and do business.” (www.vision2030.gov.jm) Prior to his appointment, Dr. Hutchinson held the post of tenured associate professor of economics and business at Lafayette College in Easton, Pennsylvania, one of America’s top institutions for first degree studies. There Dr. Hutchinson, aside from teaching and research in public finance, economic development and entrepreneurship, coordinated the College's national and international projects in entrepreneurship studies, and was the founding director in 2007 of its Economic Empowerment and Global Learning Project (EEGLP; http://eeglp.lafayette.edu). EEGLP, which quickly rose to leadership and prominence in higher education across America, uses a public scholarship paradigm (collaborative knowledge-making and problem solving about, with, and for various publics and communities) to partner with residents and communities to build their capacity for business entrepreneurism and self-agency in pursuit of their community's 6
economic development and democratic renewal, and of the expansion of the freedoms they entail. Between 2001 and 2006 Dr. Hutchinson served as Dean of studies at Lafayette before returning to the classroom. A particular emphasis during his deanship was the role of the arts, creative humanities and cultural disciplines in liberal learning and undergraduate education. While in this post he led a partnership with the University of Michigan and Stanford University to incubate creative works that were developed into a successful national performance-art tour (The 51st Dream State), and later into a national curriculum project. Between 1996 and 2001 Dr. Hutchinson served as an economic adviser -residential and non-residential-- to the Government of Jamaica on fiscal policy issues, global capital markets, and economic development and reform issues, and as a visiting research associate at the International Monetary Fund. His work on privatization and public policy is recognized internationally as being among the influential works on the topic. Dr. Hutchinson was awarded a Wye Faculty Fellowship by The Aspen Institute and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) to study leadership challenges in higher education in the twenty-first century, and a graduate fellowship by the Earhart Foundation to study public finance and political economy. He also holds a certificate in Higher Education Management from Harvard University. He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees at Clark University (www.clarku.edu), where he studied for his masters and doctorate in economics, and until this past May, on the National Advisory Board of Imagining America, a consortium of over ninety universities and colleges across America with the mission to strengthen the public role and democratic purposes of the humanities, arts, and design (www.imaginingamerica.org). Imagining America began in March 1999 as a partner of the White House Millennium Council. Dr. Hutchinson is also a director of the Institute of Economic Policy Studies in Worcester, Massachusetts, and an inductee in the Sports Hall of Fame at the State University of New York-College at Oneonta, where he studied for first degrees in economics and business while on a football scholarship from Jamaica. 7
Page 1 and 2: Labour Market Forum 2010 Jobs for G
Page 3 and 4: 12:00 p.m. - 12:20 p.m. Mr. Benthan
Page 8 and 9: Professor Rosalea Hamilton Ba (Hons
Page 10 and 11: Mr. Wayne Chen Wayne Chen is the Ch
Page 12 and 13: Mr. Benthan H. Hussey, B.A., M.Sc.
Page 14 and 15: Jamaica Producers Group, Caribbean
Page 16 and 17: Introduction In a nutshell the labo
Page 18 and 19: evenues which led to the ending of
Page 20 and 21: Despite the aforementioned challeng
Page 22 and 23: Hence, while probably a moral and n
Page 24 and 25: in the brighter promise of the futu
Page 26 and 27: As Minister of Labour with portfoli
Page 28 and 29: e-launching its Labour Market Infor
Page 30 and 31: Professional Gaps in the Labour Mar
Page 32 and 33: “Jobs for Growth: The Trade Union
Page 34 and 35: perhaps most importantly, he argued
Page 36 and 37: and the equity considerations which
Page 38 and 39: to break with the system. It is equ
Page 40 and 41: jobs, quality jobs, decent work are
Page 42 and 43: pay and productivity, important fac
Page 44 and 45: formal contracts and work is usuall
Page 46 and 47: The rise of new Keynesian thinking
Page 48 and 49: “The Role of MSMEs in Economic Ex
Page 50 and 51: Development seen as the process of
Page 52 and 53: Growth of domestic capital at a fas
Page 54 and 55: ⇒ It is this tacit knowledge that
Page 56 and 57:
Traditional sector is not generally
Page 58 and 59:
⇒ Significant investment in capac
Page 60 and 61:
Overview More than a Financial Cri
Page 62 and 63:
Vocational and technical training/e
Page 64 and 65:
A challenge to maintain the “Cari
Page 66 and 67:
It is necessary to develop and publ
Page 68 and 69:
Labour Productivity an Overview →
Page 70 and 71:
The level of productivity, in turn,
Page 72 and 73:
Jamaica’s Labour Market: Selected
Page 74 and 75:
c) Time related (69,500 and 69,300
Page 76 and 77:
Productivity & the Jamaican Economy
Page 78 and 79:
Table 2: Annual average increase in
Page 80 and 81:
Comparative Labour Statistics (Mini
Page 82 and 83:
→ No guiding philosophies (e.g.,
Page 84 and 85:
Factors Contributing: Consistently
Page 86 and 87:
Year Gini Coefficient Unit Labour P
Page 88 and 89:
An Actual Performance Based Payment
Page 90 and 91:
Elements of performance payments ar
Page 92 and 93:
Should any 925 unit employee choose
Page 94 and 95:
Policy Requirements: Data Standardi
Page 96 and 97:
→ In many instances, as soon as o
Page 98 and 99:
The simple truth is that the Privat
Page 100 and 101:
We have to also bear in mind that o
Page 102 and 103:
equire to be internationally compet
Page 104 and 105:
Where are the future job opportunit
Page 106 and 107:
employ thousands, but more importan
Page 108 and 109:
time-zone gives Jamaica an advantag
Page 110 and 111:
Education and Training Many Jamaica
Page 112 and 113:
- End - 112
Page 114 and 115:
→ → 114
Page 116:
116
show all

Labour Market Forum 2010 - Planning Institute of Jamaica

Create successful ePaper yourself

Delete template?

Save as template?