Workforce development expert joins Creative

July 28, 2015

Katy Vickland, an expert in workforce development—inclusive value chains and local capacity building— will guide Creative’s teams addressing challenges of high unemployment and poverty in vulnerable groups like at-risk youth....
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Microsoft Academies to train Salvadoran youth for tech careers

July 21, 2015

With the launch of 10 Microsoft IT Academies in 10 of the country’s most violent municipalities, 2,000 at-risk youth will get the tech skills they need for success. The Academies are part of a private sector partnership called “Estamos con vos” (“We are with You”)....
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Education is key focus at Summit of the Americas

April 13, 2015

To bring greater and more equitable prosperity to citizens from jobs to governance, heads of state at the Seventh Summit of the Americas focused on innovation and education reform for the twenty-first century economy....
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How Not to Measure Fragility

February 24, 2015

It must have once seemed self-evident: that a poor state could not be strong and stable, and conversely, that middle-income states were less likely to crumble. Using this reasoning, the World Bank pegged its classification of fragile states in part to income, and let its assistance approaches for these troubled areas follow suit....
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Ownership the key to post-2015 development

December 11, 2014

As the Millennium Development Goals end, today’s development practitioners must chart new goals that capitalize on programmatic successes, improve shortcomings and take into account markedly different realities on the ground, according to a panel of experts....
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