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  title info:
    title: Facing human capital challenges of the 21st century
    sub title: education and labor market initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates
  title info:
    title: Education and labor market initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates
  name:
    name part: Gonzalez, Gabriella.
  name:
    name part: JSTOR (Organization)
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2008
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xxxi, 299 pages) : illustrations
  abstract: Countries in the Arab region are faced with the challenge of developing their populations' skills and technical knowledge, or human capital, in order to compete in the 21st century global economy. The authors describe the education and labor market initiatives implemented or under way in four countries in the Arab region -- Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) -- to address the human resource issues they each face as they prepare their countries for a place in the 21st century global economy. Three of these countries -- Oman, Qatar, and the UAE -- are in the Arabian Gulf; the fourth, Lebanon, is in the Levant. Together, they highlight the similarities and dissimilarities of the challenges faced by countries in the region and the responses to those challenges. The study answers three main questions: What are the human resource challenges each country faces? What education, human capital, and labor market reforms have recently been implemented or are under way to address these challenges? What mechanisms and information are used to assess whether reforms are meeting their objectives, and is there evidence of success? Answers were sought through analysis of relevant literature, the most-recent population and labor force data from international and in-country sources, and a series of elite interviews in 2006 with government officials and individuals in private organizations in the four study countries. The authors found that while the study countries have instituted reforms to their education and training systems that are designed to raise the skills of the population, and have made changes to the labor market and economy aimed at facilitating the use of human capital in diverse sectors of the economy, a disconnect remains between implementing reforms and evaluating them to ascertain whether they are having the intended effects. In many cases, reforms have only recently gotten under way, so it may be too early to measure their impact. In other cases,…
  table of contents: Introduction -- Economic and Sociopolitical Context for Reform in the Four Study Countries -- Qatar -- The United Arab Emirates -- Sultanate of Oman -- Lebanon -- Conclusions -- Appendix A: Interviews Conducted -- Appendix B: Interview Protocol -- Appendix C: Qatar Higher Education Institute Scholarship Programs -- Appendix D: Private Institutions of Higher Education in Oman -- Appendix E: Recent Economic Reform Efforts in Oman.
  note: Gabriella Gonzalez [and others].
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-299).
  subject:
    geographic code: ma-----
  subject:
    topic: Labor market
    geographic: Arab countries
  subject:
    topic: Human capital
    geographic: Arab countries
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
    geographic: Arab countries
  subject:
    topic: Manpower policy
    geographic: Arab countries
  subject:
    topic: Manpower planning
    geographic: Arab countries
  subject:
    topic: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
    topic: Labor
  subject:
    topic: EDUCATION
    topic: Educational Policy & Reform
    topic: General
  subject:
    topic: Education and state
  subject:
    topic: Human capital
  subject:
    topic: Labor market
  subject:
    topic: Manpower planning
  subject:
    topic: Manpower policy
  subject:
    geographic: Arab countries
  classification: HD5812.3.A6 F33 2008eb
  classification: 331.10953
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Facing human capital challenges of the 21st century
    origin info:
      publisher: Santa Monica, CA : RAND Corp., 2008
    identifier: (DLC) 2008032855
    identifier: (OCoLC)239231040
  identifier: 9780833046420
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  identifier: 9781282033276
  identifier: 9780833045164
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  identifier: 203327 MIL
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  record info:
    record content source: N$T
    record creation date: 090522
    record change date: 20260728172458.4
    record identifier: in00003894889
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng