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Syllabus: Written Test For Selection of Community Welfare Attaches, 2016

The document outlines the syllabus for a written test for selection of Community Welfare Attaches in Pakistan in 2016. The test has three parts: Part I (70%) covers labor force, employment, and out-migration topics through structured questions on Pakistan's labor market conditions, key labor exporting countries, remittances, and demographic challenges and opportunities. Part II (15%) tests analytical abilities through data response questions on labor, migration, and employment data from government reports. Part III (15%) examines computer skills in areas like email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and internet/social media usage through multiple choice, structured, or true-false questions.

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Syllabus: Written Test For Selection of Community Welfare Attaches, 2016

The document outlines the syllabus for a written test for selection of Community Welfare Attaches in Pakistan in 2016. The test has three parts: Part I (70%) covers labor force, employment, and out-migration topics through structured questions on Pakistan's labor market conditions, key labor exporting countries, remittances, and demographic challenges and opportunities. Part II (15%) tests analytical abilities through data response questions on labor, migration, and employment data from government reports. Part III (15%) examines computer skills in areas like email, word processing, spreadsheets, presentations, and internet/social media usage through multiple choice, structured, or true-false questions.

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Syllabus:

Written Test for Selection of Community Welfare Attaches, 2016


Part I: Labor Force, Employment and Out-Migration of Workers (70%)
Four structured questions will be asked, to be answered in 60 minutes, from the
following:
A. Basic structure of Pakistans labor force and employment
Macroeconomic conditions in Pakistan
Composition of labor force, employment and out-migration in Pakistan.
Key labor exporting countries from Pakistan and trends of export of
manpower from Pakistan
Workers remittances and their impact on Pakistans economy, e.g.,
growth, poverty, inequality, investment, rural asset accumulation, human
capital investment, liquidity constraints, family relationships.
B. Demographic composition of labor force in Pakistan: challenges and
opportunities
Growth of working age population and demographic dividends?
The composition of children and elderly; changing share of working age
population; How Pakistan can capitalize on demographic dividends?
C. WTOs General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
Main characteristics; scope and definition;
MFN in GATS; transparency; participation of developing countries;
Monopolies and business practices in GATS;
Payments and transfers;
Restrictions to safeguard the balance of payments;
Progressive liberalization
D. Demand for labor in Middle East and OECD countries
Declining commodity prices and demand for labor
Growth slow-down in China and implications on global demand for labor;
Changing immigration policies in EU and prospects for export of
manpower.
Global growth prospects and opportunities for export of Pakistani
manpower; demand for labor and emerging skill-gaps in Pakistan
Changing trends in global demand for labor and mitigating strategies to
boost manpower export from Pakistan.

E. Issues of Pakistani migrant workers


Salient problems of overseas Pakistanis in general; exploitation of migrant
workers at countries of origin, transit and designation; issues of Pakistani
prisoners in destination countries; country specific problems of overseas
Pakistanis (only those countries where CWAs are posted); welfare and
protection of migrant workers.
Right of vote for overseas Pakistanis; social issues of migrant families
behind.
F. Special topics
United Nations International Convention on the Protection of the rights
of all Migrant Workers and Members of their Families.
Role of Pakistani diaspora in national development.
Expo 2020 UAE; FIFA World Cup 2022 Qatar.
ILO and its two conventions of 1949 & 1975 along with non-binding
recommendations.

Part II: Test of Analytical Skills and Data Response (15%)


To test analytical abilities, data response questions would be asked to be answered in 30
minutes. The data response questions would be based on labor, migration and
employment data to be taken from government reports, e.g., Economic Survey,
newspapers or magazines, etc.

Part III: Test of IT Skills (15%)


This part of the test is aimed at examining computer skills of the candidates in
communication using email and other tools; documentation and word processing; data
manipulation using spreadsheets such as Excel; presentation authoring e.g., use of
power point; internet usage such as search engines, portals, websites and social media.
The mode of examinations for this portion of the written test could be multiple-choice
questions, structured questions or true-false questions to be answered in 30 minutes.

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