Artificial Intelligence for Job Seeking : How to Enhance Labor Intermediation in Public Employment Services

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One of the main challenges of employment services -in particular labor intermediation systems- is to facilitate the adequate matching between the required skills in open vacancies and those that job seekers have. This challenge stems in part from the difficulty of matching the skills, competencies, education, and job experience that a candidate reports to have, with the functions the potential employer wants to assign to this prospect employee.

Reasons for optimism in remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean?

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In April of last year, a variety of analysts announced the potential for a decline of over 20% in global remittances as a result of the pandemic. The anticipated losses of employment for the closure of businesses, as well as the closure of many of the businesses where migrants sent money and where their families received it, would have had a negative impact on remittances. If this prediction had come true, the families of migrants would have been dramatically impacted in a period in which the pandemic also was hitting the economies of the remittance receiving countries.

Gender and Renewable Energy: Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Hydroelectric Energy

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This document focuses on how to incorporate a gender perspective in operations that support the construction, operation and maintenance of medium- and large-scale renewable wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric energy installations connected to the grid for purposes of power generation. Additionally, there is also a section on rural energy that is applicable to small installations and mini-grids, or to exceptional cases where medium- and large-scale facilities provide electricity to a community.

Gender and Renewable Energy: Wind, Solar, Geothermal and Hydroelectric Energy

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on

This document focuses on how to incorporate a gender perspective in operations that support the construction, operation and maintenance of medium- and large-scale renewable wind, solar, geothermal and hydroelectric energy installations connected to the grid for purposes of power generation. Additionally, there is also a section on rural energy that is applicable to small installations and mini-grids, or to exceptional cases where medium- and large-scale facilities provide electricity to a community.

It takes a virtual village: Digital tools for supporting new moms during and beyond COVID-19

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“Try not to move so much during this next contraction so I can take your COVID-19 sample” was one of the phrases I had not planned on hearing prior to March 2020 as I was preparing for the birth of my first child in June. Neither was my midwife asking me six weeks post-partum “Can you adjust your phone so we can begin your breast exam over zoom?” or “Now lie on your back and push fingers under your belly button to see if we can determine the size of your diastasis recti…virtually” while I fumbled with my phone.

It takes a virtual village: Digital tools for supporting new moms during and beyond COVID-19

Submitted by SPH DIGITAL on
“Try not to move so much during this next contraction so I can take your COVID-19 sample” was one of the phrases I had not planned on hearing prior to March 2020 as I was preparing for the birth of my first child in June. Neither was my midwife asking me six weeks post-partum “Can you adjust your phone so we can begin your breast exam over zoom?” or “Now lie on your back and push fingers under your belly button to see if we can determine the size of your diastasis recti…virtually” while I fumbled with my phone.
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