All posts tagged "Growth & Employment"

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  Kazakhstan banks on small business digitalisation as engine of accelerated growth

  The Republic of Kazakhstan is about the size of western Europe and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the south west to Russia in the north and China to the

  • Posted August 16, 2021
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  UK Cabinet Office axes apprenticeship scheme

  The UK’s Cabinet Office has suspended one of its apprenticeship schemes, following budget cuts which forced a training provider to withdraw. The central government department was one of a number

  • Posted February 20, 2019
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  Canadian federal jobs on the rise for second year

  The number of public servants employed by the Canadian federal government has increased for the second consecutive year, new figures from Statistics Canada show. An additional 3,717 federal public servants

  • Posted December 14, 2017
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  UK infrastructure chief champions city connections – and condemns Brexit disconnections

  Linking world cities to smaller conurbations through high-speed rail can boost wider economic growth, Lord Adonis told a London audience this month. But the chair of the National Infrastructure Commission

  • Posted November 27, 2017
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  India’s civil service think tank moves to open up top jobs

  The Indian government is attracting fire from many serving civil servants over its plans to allow departments to recruit people directly into senior posts from outside the civil service. Traditionally,

  • Posted November 21, 2017
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  China’s civil service exams attract 1.6m entrants

  China’s national civil service exam – or guokao – is set to be fiercely contested this year, after 1.56m job seekers registered by the deadline of Wednesday 8 November. Of

  • Posted November 13, 2017
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  ASEAN states put civil services at heart of development goals

  A declaration on the central role of the civil service in meeting South East Asia’s economic development goals has been signed by the region’s heads of state. In 2015, the

  • Posted May 8, 2017
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  US foreign service vacuum as Trump purges public servants

  The entire top management team of the US state department left government last week, fueling fears that the foreign service will see a mass exodus of talent under president Donald

  • Posted January 30, 2017
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  China’s presence on international stage grows as EU’s declines, new index finds

  China is seeing enormous growth in its international profile and influence whilst Europe stagnates, according to a global ranking system that measures countries’ visibility and activity on the international stage.

  • Posted December 19, 2016
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  Trump’s Cabinet unfolds amid rumour and turmoil

  Donald Trump’s Cabinet-appointment dramas have continued over Thanksgiving weekend, with the president-elect’s top advisor, Kellyanne Conway, acknowledging a grassroots outcry against the possible appointment of Mitt Romney as secretary of

  • Posted November 28, 2016
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