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India Poverty Reduction: 171M Lifted from Extreme Poverty
Aakhir Tak – In Shorts India lifted 171 million people from extreme poverty between 2011-12 and 2022-23, says World Bank. India poverty reduction efforts saw the extreme poverty rate fall drastically from 16.2% to 2.3%. Rural extreme poverty dropped from 18.4% to 2.8%; urban poverty fell from 10.7% to 1.1%. Using the Lower-Middle-Income poverty line ($3.65/day), 378 million people were lifted…
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A mother of 3 in her forties comes into the cancer clinic worried and eager for answers. She has a right breast lump with associated lumps under her right armpit. She is one of many that come in every week now. Treated at the health centre with antibiotics for several weeks, she was referred for further assessment and management. On clinical assessment she is diagnosed with a breast tumour.…
Remittances Grows by Five Per cent Globally
Remittances Grows by Five Per cent Globally
Remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) withstood global headwinds in 2022, showing a growth of five per cent to 626 billion dollar. However, this is lower than the 10.2% increase in 2021, according to the latest World Bank Migration and Development Brief. Remittances, which are a vital source of household income for LMICs, to developing regions were shaped by several factors in…
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Remittances Grows by Five Per cent Globally
Remittances Grows by Five Per cent Globally
Remittances to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) withstood global headwinds in 2022, showing a growth of five per cent to 626 billion dollar. However, this is lower than the 10.2% increase in 2021, according to the latest World Bank Migration and Development Brief. Remittances, which are a vital source of household income for LMICs, to developing regions were shaped by several factors in…
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LMIC Launches the Canadian Job Trends Dashboard
LMIC-CIMT. (2022, April 28). LMIC Launches the Canadian Job Trends Dashboard. Labour Market Information Council. https://lmic-cimt.ca/lmic-launches-the-canadian-job-trends-dashboard/
LMIC-CIMT announces: “Explore labour market information based on trends found in online job postings from across Canada: our Canadian Online Job Posting Dashboard is now the Canadian Job Trends Dashboard, with a new user-friendly design and more timely data. The information found in online job postings can help track trends in occupational demand and work requirements such as skills, knowledge and tools and technology. Based on data collected from thousands of Canadian websites and job boards by Vicinity Jobs, the information in the dashboard is updated weekly. The dashboard offers a view of what Canadian employers are looking for in potential new hires. Users can explore the type and frequency of occupations and work requirements within any period (starting in January 2018), geographic region, and National Occupational Classification code.”
Additional Information
Canadian Job Trends Dashboard. Labour Market Information Council. https://lmic-cimt.ca/data-dashboards/canadian-job-trends-dashboard/
Mantione, A., & Dobbs, G. (2022, April 25). Webinar #3: Analyzing online job postings data to understand employment trends [Video]. You Tube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Md-ZearoQYc
Photo Source: (2022). [Illustration]. Labour Market Information Council. https://lmic-cimt.ca/lmic-launches-the-canadian-job-trends-dashboard/
IPC re-designated as WHO Collaborating Centre for pharmacovigilance in public health programmes in LMIC
Pharmacovigilance is the science and activities related to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects due to a medicine or vaccine. Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) which is the national co-ordinating centre for Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) has been re-designated as the WHO collaborating centre to support Word Health Organisation (WHO) in areas…
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Under Pressure: Estimating the Demand and Supply for Bilingual Workers in Canada
"Skills shortages have long been a concern for policy makers1. The lack of certain skills among the working population reduces Canada’s competitiveness and hampers economic growth. Even amid recently elevated unemployment rates, employers report difficulty finding qualified skilled workers to fill key vacancies. Among these are positions requiring the capacity to communicate effectively in both official languages."
"Identifying the language requirements of jobs and the availability of workers who can meet those needs, however, is limited by the available data. As a result, it is challenging to estimate the true impact of language shortages in Canada, which in turn obscures the implementation of appropriate policy solutions. In this LMI Insight Report, we assess the current data and its capacity to identify potential shortages of bilingual workers. We then examine the feasibility of addressing these gaps through novel approaches."
Key Findings
"The identification of skills shortages requires measuring and comparing the unmet demand for skills with the supply of skills. The current suite of survey instruments used to capture demand and supply, however, are not designed to collect data related to skills or other work requirements such as language.
Enhancements to existing surveys, subject to further examination and assessment, could improve our understanding of the unmet demand and supply of bilingual workers but are unlikely to yield much in the way of practical results.
Online job postings, albeit limited to the demand side, offer an efficient alternative with some advantages:
Granularity: The number of online job postings listing bilingualism can be easily grouped by detailed occupation and location, as well as other work requirements. ...
Timeliness: Data are collected weekly and released monthly. For instance, in February 2020, there were just over 13,000 online job postings asking for bilingualism.
Localness: Observations at the 4-digit NOC are available for small geographies.
Coverage: Data on public administration jobs are captured, which accounts for a large share of bilingual job offerings.
Trend analysis: Calculating shares within occupations at the 4-digit NOC level over time is possible. For instance, between 2018 and 2020, the share of job postings for Metallurgical and materials engineers asking for bilingualism increased by 14 percentage points.
Levels of bilingualism: This report documents and analyzes online job postings for which bilingualism is specified as a work requirement. Future work in this area could disentangle these with further refinements, such as whether being bilingual is a requirement or an asset."
"Despite these advantages, some considerable limitations also exist. In particular, online postings data only reflect demand and therefore can only signal the potential for shortages. Data also tend to be skewed towards occupations in certain industries and regions, as well as by firm size and educational requirements."
Labour Market Information Council, May 2021: Under Pressure: Estimating the demand and supply for bilingual workers in Canada
Photo Source: Beck, C. (2016). 6 Potential Brain Benefits Of Bilingual Education [Illustration]. NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/11/29/497943749/6-potential-brain-benefits-of-bilingual-education
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