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NORTH AMERICA 2.0 - Forging a Continental Future

19 May 2021

Box 2: National Workforce Development Agenda in Mexico In 2019, the president of Mexico and the secretary of labor and social welfare launched one of the largest apprenticeship/mentoring programs in the world, called “Youth Building the Future” (Jóvenes Construyendo Futuro).46 The program’s objective is to increase productivity levels and economic growth by increasing job and training opportunitie. [...] The GDPs of the border states would constitute the third-largest economy in the world, after the United States and China with $19.49 trillion and $12.01 trillion, respectively, surpassing Japan with $4.87 trillion.68 The three countries can benefit from focusing on strengthening the competitiveness of border states’ coproduction networks, which can also help improve the quality of life and the env. [...] Priorities for Action The authors strongly recommend that the United States, Mexico, and Canada create a trilateral task force and four working groups to develop and coordinate regional cooperation on key elements of workforce development in the context of maintaining and increasing the region’s competitiveness as well as meeting the needs of the continent’s workforces and businesses.71 The trilat. [...] Identify successful examples of private and public collaboration, with emphasis on highlighting promising steps and tools to incentivize companies to invest in worker reskilling and upskilling, to provide midcareer training and learning opportunities, and to develop agile training and learning programs to ease the transition and improve the quality of work transformations. [...] Identify successful examples of private and public collaboration, with emphasis on highlighting promising steps and tools to incentivize companies to invest in worker reskilling and upskilling, to provide midcareer training and learning opportunities, and to develop agile training and learning programs to ease the transition and improve the quality of work transformations.

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