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Claudio de Moura Castro (Brazil) Economist. Chief Education Advisor, Inter-American Development Bank. Master's Degree from Yale University; one year of doctoral work at the University of California (Berkeley); Ph.D. in Economics from Vanderbilt University. Taught at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, the Vargas Foundation, the University of Chicago, the University of Brasília, the University of Geneva and the University of Burgundy. Chief of the Training Policies Branch of the ILO between 1986 and 1992. Between 1992 and 1995 worked for the World Bank as Senior Human Resources Economist. Has published over twenty-five books and over 200 scholarly articles.
This paper borrows heavily from a draft, by the same author, of the Inter-American Development Bank's strategy for training. It has benefited from the work of Richard Johanson and Andrés Bernasconi, who are co-authors of the background paper that will accompany the strategy and will contain the relevant references and sources. In addition, useful comments were received from Jon Lauglo, Gustavo Marquez, Maria Luisa Silveira, Gregori Arevalo, Roberto Boclin, Christian Gomez, Armando Jose Namis, Gabriela Vega, Viola Espinola, Jorge Tejada, Martin Chrisney, Larry Wolff and J. Martinez, and from members of NORRAG (an international association of major donors in education and training).
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Castro, C.d.M. Vocational and technical training: Setting the record straight. Prospects 29, 37–54 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02736824
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