Title page -- Copyright information -- CONTENTS -- Executive summary -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Chapter 1. Productivity, employment, skills and development: The strategic issues -- 1.1. Understanding productivity -- 1.2. Productivity, employment and development -- 1.3. Skills policies for a virtuous circle: Linking productivity, employment and development -- Chapter 2. Connecting skills development to productivity and employment growth in developing and developed countries -- 2.1. High-income OECD countries -- 2.2. Countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) -- 2.3. Developing countries in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America, the Arab States and Africa -- 2.4. Least developed countries -- Chapter 3. Skills and productivity in the workplace and along value chains -- 3.1. The sustainable enterprise: Competitiveness, productivity and skills development -- 3.2. Enterprise value chains and clusters: Improving productivity and employment outcomes through skills development -- 3.3. Training in high-performance workplaces -- 3.4. Improving skills and productivity in small enterprises -- 3.5. How governments and the social partners can support enterprise-level training and skills development -- Chapter 4. Target groups -- 4.1. Rural communities -- 4.2. Disadvantaged youth -- 4.3. Persons with disabilities -- 4.4. Migrant workers -- Chapter 5. Skills policies as drivers of development -- 5.1. Capabilities, technology and information: A dynamic process -- 5.2. Coordinating skills development policies with economic policies -- Chapter 6. Skills policies responding to global drivers of change: Technology, trade and climate change -- 6.1. Building social capabilities to promote technological catching up -- 6.2. Maximizing the benefits and minimizing the costs of trade and investment.

6.3. Climate change -- Main policy orientations arising out of the report -- Suggested points for discussion -- Bibliography.