Sri Lanka Jobs Diagnostic

This report outlines 5 main policy channels for interventions to help the Sri Lankan economy modernize and move beyond yesterday's labor-intensive strategies to more skill-intensive employment in competitive firms: reducing barriers to firm growth and productivity, revising labor market, govern...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ruppert Bulmer, Elizabeth
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C The World Bank 2020
Series:World Bank E-Library Archive
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Collection: World Bank E-Library Archive - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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Summary:This report outlines 5 main policy channels for interventions to help the Sri Lankan economy modernize and move beyond yesterday's labor-intensive strategies to more skill-intensive employment in competitive firms: reducing barriers to firm growth and productivity, revising labor market, government employment, and competition policies; enhancing youth and women's capacity to obtain better jobs; increasing the productivity of the self-employed; and improving matching of job seekers with employers