Contribution to APEC HRD Expert Meeting

On 7 and 8 July 2010, an APEC experts meeting workshop was held in Jakarta, Indonesia. The event aims to further advance APEC’s inclusive growth agenda in 2010 by assessing the human resource impacts of the global economic crisis and to identify what is working and what is not working in retaining existing employment, and creating new, employment and earnings.

APEC HRD Meeting in Jakarta, 7 and 8 July 2010

The expert meeting was built on a statement made by APEC leaders in November 2009, expressing their support for a new growth paradigm for a “connected Asia-Pacific in the 21^st Century” that focuses on inclusive growth, broadening access to economic opportunities by facilitating worker retraining, skills upgrading and domestic labour mobility. This inclusive growth will also look to design social safety nets that provide short-term support but avoid long-term dependency.

The initiative was also built upon two studies conducted during the Asian financial crises in 1997-99 by the Human Resource Development Working Group of APEC: The Human Resource Dimension of the Asian Financial Crisis: Towards the Definition of an APEC Response (1998) and Innovative Labour Market Policies and Programmes in APEC Member Economies (1999). The project classifications used by these reports were innovative and provided a foundation for this activity.

This initiative was also to support the upcoming 5th Human Resource Development Ministerial Meeting. As such, the four objectives are as follows:

Develop an analytic framework to assess the human resource impacts of the global economic crisis and the effectiveness of Social Safety Net (SSN) and Labour Market Systems (LMS) (including active labour market interventions)
Assess the human resource impacts of the current global economic crisis and document SSN and LMS responses across APEC member Economies.
Identify areas of APEC member Economies where capacity needs further strengthening in order to effectively use SSN and LMS responses when dealing with the current fiscal crisis.
Evaluate what is working and what is not working with respect to the effectiveness of the
SSN and LMS responses of APEC member Economies to the economic crisis. This evaluation will include a particular focus on the gender dimensions of these responses and using the crisis as opportunity to reform training and education systems.

At the invitation of the APEC Secretariat, Economica Vietnam attended the expert meeting and contributed to workshop with a presentation delivered at the workshop and a country case study which would soon be published under an APEC publication. Please click the line belows for:

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