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Skills gap will hinder South African growth plans

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SOUTH AFRICA

Last month, the budget increased education spending from 296 billion rand (22.8 billion dollars) to 321 billion rand (24.7 billion dollars), remaining constant at 6.8% of GDP and…

French government may ease reform pace soon

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FRANCE

As they were 50 years ago, several universities and parts of the transport system will be on strike.

Cambodia education reform could help investors

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CAMBODIA

Education reform, labour supply and economic development in Cambodia.

R&D spending could help global productivity recovery

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INTERNATIONAL

High on the agenda is the need for science to work across disciplines to address complex societal problems. In 2015, research and development (R&D) funding increased by 5.1…

Africa's future will hinge on closing skills gap

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AFRICA

Skills development in Africa.

AI use will become central to corporate recruitment

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INT

Using AIs can expand the candidate pool and increase diversity, automate the screening of applicants, making hiring quicker and thus cheaper, and provide companies with more…

China makes moves to plug tech skills gap

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CHINA

The gap between demand and supply has been rising for years, but the pandemic-induced spurt in digitisation worldwide has accelerated the need within the public and private…

Labour force size will constrain Russian productivity

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RUSSIA

Russian labour and demographic trends.

Indonesia's structural gaps impede its digital economy

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INDONESIA

About 150 million people (55% of the population) are already online, and three-quarters of them access the internet via smart feature phones or smartphones. Some pandemic-related…

Australia’s Pacific push faces headwinds

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AUSTRALIA

The push is intended to counter China’s growing economic and security presence within the region and has as a core policy the establishment of an infrastructure bank.