ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the policy implications of the different country studies and whether education and training systems are facilitating economic change, simply responding to it, or concerned with meeting other needs. It discusses which are the most appropriate strategies for particular HRD problems and identify what policy lessons can be gained from the country's analysed in our study. The methodological framework pointed to the importance of identifying the major drivers of change in each of the country's studied, their impact on economic development and correspondingly what role education. The chapter describes with analysing and exploring how different countries around the Americas and Caribbean region are managing their HRD systems in a period of rapid change and globalization. The education and training policies implemented in Jamaica over the past 15 years have undergone a number of significant changes, the majority of which have been implemented to support economic change.
