Globalisation & the convergence of Professional Skills & Capacity building
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•Professional skills and capacity building are mutually inclusive
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•Current scenario:
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ØThe globe has no corners - In the words of Mr. Thomas Friedman, ‘the world has flattened”
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ØGlobal convergence of regulatory frameworks
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ØConvergence of financial markets
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ØGradual convergence of taxation policies
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ØConvergence of accounting standards
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ØEmergence of Open-sourcing; outsourcing; off-shoring; in-sourcing; synchronizing global supply chains; combination of digital, mobile, personal, and virtual technologies
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ØResulting from the need to/of:
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ØConvergence of advanced technologies, new ways of doing business, removal of economic and political obstructions, rapid introduction of millions of young Chinese, Indian, and East European professionals into the world economy
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