Jamaica’s development of women entrepreneurship: challenges and opportunities

Public Administration and Policy, Vol. 22 No. 2, pp. 152-172

The economic conditions in Jamaica and the role of females as domestic caregiver have made it difficult for women to enter the labour force even though Jamaican women are relatively better educated than men. Women remain at a disadvantage in the labour force. Jamaica’s legislation and budget allocations in favour of female entrepreneurship are analysed to identify where and how Jamaica is investing its efforts to improve women’s participation in the labour force. The authors conclude with suggestions on how the Jamaican government could facilitate further women entrepreneurship development to reach a more gender balanced inclusive socio-economic development.

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Policy Debate | Learning to Grow Beyond the Middle Income Trap Singapore as an Export Model?

International Development Policy. Article and Debates 5-3.

In the initial paper ‘Learning to Grow’, the authors argue that a key challenge for middle income countries is to avoid ‘the middle income trap’. In this situation, economic growth has come to a halt and a country is unable to transition to the next level in part due to inadequacies in high level human capital. Taking the example of Singapore as a country that has avoided the middle income trap, the authors call for ‘a much closer alignment of policies for human capital and economic development’ and a ‘human capital focused development strategy’. In his answer, Professor Gopinathan, from the National University of Singapore, analyses some key conditions that were crucial for Singapore’s success and questions whether the model could be exported to other contexts.

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Talent Attrition and Retention: Strategic Challenges for Indian Industries in the Next Decade

Attrition rates have been high in several of the key sectors of the Indian Economy leading to discussions about which could be the best retention strategies to counter high labour turnover. Measurements are scarce of HR functions in Indian . This article contributes to the measurement of Indian HR function by reporting on the findings of a survey of attrition in Indian companies and by discussing the possible strategies chosen by Indian companies to counter costly labour turnover. The authors question the causal link assumed by a large number of Indian companies that higher attrition can be contained through the payment of higher compensation packages. Paying higher salaries to retain staff increases operational costs without that this measure can guarantee lower attrition or ensure positive performance levels. The authors instead suggest that Indian companies should.

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Comments to McKinsey Q. report on training

Comments to McKinsey Survey of Training (July 2010) by Professor Lichia Yiu

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Survey on training quality management in Europe – Need for improvement

The survey questionnaire was sent to 100 European companies, of which 34 responded. The highest response rate was from companies in France, Great Britain and Switzerland. Others were from Belgium, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. Participating companies were mostly large and medium-sized enterprises engaged in construction, banking, industrial goods, insurance, automobiles, media and communications, and pharmaceuticals …

“This article first appeared in the November 2009 issue of ISO Focus magazine www.iso.org/isofocus and is reproduced with the kind permission of the ISO Central Secretariat”

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Employee Turnover Study

Centre for Social Eco-Nomic Development (CSEND), the parent organisation of the AdeQuaTE, with the support of the Confederation of Indian Industries carried out an on-line survey regarding employee turnover. Results of this on-line survey is published in the “Research Report”, 2008, Lichia Yiu and Raymond Saner, Geneva.

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