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King, Kenneth – Prospects: Quarterly Review of Comparative Education, 2014
The article underlines the historic importance of the treatment of skills development, finally, by the Education for All Global Monitoring Report (GMR) team. Among the many challenges in its analysis are the multiple and overlapping meanings of the word skill, and the consequent difficulties of quantifying and monitoring efforts at skills…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Youth Opportunities, Skill Analysis, Definitions
Ngee, Lee Mah – Online Submission, 2011
This paper presents a study of 428 youths who participated in service-learning projects in developing countries in South-East Asia, China and India. Using mixed-method approach, this study examined the reasons for their participation in the YEP (youth expedition projects) and the impact of their service-learning experiences on their civic…
Descriptors: Educational Objectives, Citizen Participation, Service Learning, Foreign Countries
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific, Bangkok (Thailand). – 1980
The report of a United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) Expert Group meeting, involving 13 experts from 10 countries, discusses planning national efforts to promote youth's role in development. Current systems and indicators used to assess the situation of rural and urban youth and their contribution to…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Classification, Community Development, Comparative Analysis
Medina, Alberto Hernandez; And Others – 1978
The education/employment situations of young people in Mexico and South Asia are examined as part of a project to broaden perspectives on social, educational, and employment issues in developing nations. In Mexico, economic growth between 1940 and 1970 was considerably greater than achievement of social goals such as full employment and…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Comparative Education, Developing Nations, Economic Factors