Presentation made by Kathleen Beegle, Sr. Economist at the World Bank, on key messages from the World Bank's 2013 World Development Report on Jobs.

1. World Development Report
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Moving jobs to center stage 1

2. 2 Main messages
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3. 3 The jobs challenge
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Jobs challenges are huge

4. 4 The jobs challenge
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What is a job?

5. 5 The jobs challenge
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A job does not always come with a wage

6. Source: WDR 2013 team based on ILO data Source: WDR 2013 team
South Asia, Africa, and East Asia and
the Pacific face significant youth bulges
Alarming levels of youth
idleness and unemployment
6 The jobs challenge
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7. 7 Part I
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I. Jobs are
transformational

8. 8 Jobs are transformational
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Jobs get better with development

9. 9 Jobs are transformational
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Jobs drive development

10. Source: Covarrubias and others 2012 for the WDR 2013
Jobs are the main source of household income
10 Jobs and living standards

11. Job creation and destruction happen everywhere
11 Jobs and productivity
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Source: WDR 2013 team based on Bartelsman, Haltiwanger, and Scarpetta (2009), and Shiferaw and Bedi
(2010).

12. The employment share of microenterprises is greater
in developing countries
12 Jobs and productivity

13. Source: Wietzke and McLeod 2012 for the WDR 2013
Jobs are correlated with civic engagement
13 Jobs and social cohesion
Active membership and lack of a Job Active membership and motivating Job

14. 14 Part II
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II. What are
good jobs for development?

15. 15 Valuing jobs
Individual and social valuations of jobs often differ

16. 16 Valuing jobs
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Some jobs do more for development

17. A typology of jobs challenges
17 Diverse jobs agendas

18. Agendas connected by the migration of jobs
 Manufacturing
jobs have migrated
– are services next?
18 Connected jobs agendas
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Source: WDR 2013 team based
on data from the United
Nations Industrial Development
Organization.
 Where will
China’s jobs in light
manufacturing go as
labor costs increase?

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III. Policies through the
jobs lens
Part III

20. Policies through the jobs lens20
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Three distinct layers of policies are needed

21. Beyond labor policies21
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Global partnerships for jobs
Rights and standards: pressure goes only so far
Further liberalizing investments, but managing the tradeoffs
Migration policies: toward bilateral agreements
Jobs are center stage, but where are the numbers?

22. The difficult questions22
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Key policy questions addressed through the Report
1 • What is a job?
2 • Growth strategies or jobs strategies?
3 • Can entrepreneurship be fostered?
4 • Can policies contribute to social cohesion?
5 • Skills or jobs – what comes first?
6 • A targeted investment climate?
7 • Competing for jobs?
8 • Protecting workers or protecting jobs?
9 • How can job reallocation be accelerated?

23. 23 Follow up
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To continue the dialogue on what it takes to
create good jobs for development join the
interactive Jobs Knowledge Platform at:
www.jobsknowledge.org
To download the World Development Report
2013: Jobs, its background papers, databases
and explanatory videos, visit:
http://www.worldbank.org/wdr2013