Building a Foundation | Ready for the Global Workforce | Livelihoods through Self-Employment | Global Context Matters |
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What are soft skills (behavioral skills, social skills…)?
By 2020, these types of skills will be in higher demand across industries than narrow technical skills.
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What is the skills gap?
The gap between the skills employers need from their workers and the skills that workers actually have.
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What is a necessity entrepreneur?
Unlike opportunity or growth-oriented entrepreneurs, these types of entrepreneurs are driven by the need to generate an income.
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What is globalization?
This term refers to the free movement of goods, capital, services, people, technology and information as a procedure of international integration.
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What is lifelong learning?
An ongoing, voluntary, and self-motivated pursuit of knowledge that promotes professional adaptability.
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What is digital disruption?
The change that occurs when new digital technologies and business models affect the value proposition of existing goods and services.
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What is the informal economy?
In the developing world, the majority of those engaged in economic activity are part of this economy.
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What is nearly 71 million?
The number of young people unemployed globally (2016)
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What is mentorship?
This approach enhances the employability of youth by providing them guidance to address professional and personal challenges.
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What is the gig economy?
A labor market characterized by the prevalence of short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs.
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What is a digital job platform?
This kind of digital tool is aggregating vast amounts of data to connect job seekers and employers.
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What is 37.7%
The percent of working youth living in extreme or moderate poverty
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What is service learning?
This form of experiential education is aimed at enhancing student learning through community engagement.
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What is structural unemployment?
Unemployment resulting from industrial reorganization, typically due to technological change rather than fluctuations in supply or demand.
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What is decentralized economic activity?
This trend refers to the movement away from a single large employer to micro-enterprises and digital jobs?
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What is 28%
Although women are more educated than men globally, as of today, their chances to rise to positions of leadership are this percentage of those of men.
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What is digital badging?
This credentialing mechanism is designed to validate and make visible learning in both formal and informal settings.
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What is demand signaling?
This term refers to how demand for skills and opportunity is signaled between employers, education leaders and youth.
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What is blockchain technology?
This technology can create a verifiable economic identity for unbanked individuals.
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What is the Fourth Industrial Revolution
This ongoing digital revolution is characterized by a fusion of technologies that is blurring the lines between the physical, digital, and biological spheres.
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