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On the occasion of the centenary of the International Labour Organization (ILO), International Development Policy explores the Organization's progress and gaps to date and its efforts to respond to the new challenges of the fourth industrial revolution, with regard to labour and social protection. Readership: Scholars, students, academic librarians and development practitioners interested in international organisations, the ILO, the future of work, working conditions, social protection, development policy, the 4th industrial revolution, rights and social justice, the green economy, reform, child labour, migrant labour, women's labour, globalisation, automation, Asia, Africa, Europe and the informal economy.

5 Why Commodity Booms Have Not (Yet?) Boosted Human Capital: Bolivia's Struggle to Create a Skilled Workforce6 Lifelong Learning in a Learning Society: Are Community Learning Centres the Vehicle?; 7 Exploring the Value of the Capability Approach for Vocational Education and Training Evaluation: Reflections from South Africa; Part 3 China, Migration, MOOCs: What's in It for Higher Education in Africa?; 8 China's Higher Education Engagement with Africa: A Different Partnership and Cooperation Model?; 9 Western African Student Migration: A Response to the Globalisation of Knowledge.

Preliminary Material -- 1 International Education and Development: Histories, Parallels, Crossroads /Gilles Carbonnier , Michel Carton and Kenneth King -- 2 International Education Policies, Issues, and Challenges /Nicholas Burnett -- 3 International Investment in Education for Development: Public Good or Economic Tool? /Alexandra Draxler -- 4 Tertiary Technical Education and Youth Integration in Brazil, Colombia and Mexico /Claudia Jacinto and Ana García de Fanelli -- 5 Why Commodity Booms Have Not (Yet?) Boosted Human Capital: Bolivia's Struggle to Create a Skilled Workforce /Fritz Brugger and Kathlen Lizárraga Zamora -- 6 Lifelong Learning in a Learning Society: Are Community Learning Centres the Vehicle? /Manzoor Ahmed -- 7 Exploring the Value of the Capability Approach for Vocational Education and Training Evaluation: Reflections from South Africa /Lesley Powell and Simon McGrath -- 8 China's Higher Education Engagement with Africa: A Different Partnership and Cooperation Model? /Kenneth King -- 9 Western African Student Migration: A Response to the Globalisation of Knowledge /Denise Efionayi and Etienne Piguet -- 10 Boosting Higher Education in Africa through Shared Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) /Gérard Escher , Dimitrios Noukakis and Patrick Aebischer -- Index.

In Education, Learning, Training: Critical Issues for Development, renowned scholars and practitioners examine shifts in global education policy and practice over the last 50 years.

This issue of International Development Policy looks at recent paradigmatic innovations and development trajectories in Latin America, focusing on the Andean region. It aims to enrich our understanding of recent development debates and processes in Latin America, and what the rest of the world can learn from them. Readership: Academic libraries and institutional libraries, scholars and post-graduate students, development and policy specialists and practitioners interested in Latin America, development alternatives, international relations, extractivism, commodities, sustainable development, buen vivir, development cycles, development policy and practice, citizens' role in society, indigenous rights, globalisation, natural resources, environment, economic growth, inequality, criminal justice, multilateral development banks.