Introduction: Building an inclusive future through skills development: An agenda for Asia and the Pacific / Akiko Sakamoto, Johnny Sung -- Section I: Recognizing new business environment for skills and inclusive growth: 1. Business model, skills intensity and job quality for inclusive society / Johnny Sung -- 2. Managing business restructuring, employment adjustments and implications for skills in Japan / Ken Yamazaki -- 3. Promoting skills, jobs and competitiveness in global value chains: policies and practices for developing countries / Karina Fernandez-Stark, Penny Bamber -- Section II: Responding to future demographic shifts: ageing societies and youth aspiration: 4. Holistic framework for harnessing an ageing workforce in Singapore / Helen Ko -- 5. Increasing young people’s adaptability and mobility: from competency approach and twenty-first-century skills to capabilities and vocational streams / John Buchanan Leesa Wheelahan, Serena Yu -- 6. Revisiting apprenticeships as a response to persistent and growing youth unemployment / Erica Smith -- Section III: Technological change and its impacts on jobs and skills for the future: 7. Creative destruction? Technological progress, employment growth, and future skills in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand and Viet Nam / Souleima El Achkar -- 8. New forms of business and increased non-regular forms of employment: Opportunity and challenge for skills for inclusion and innovation in the Republic of Korea / Hai-Woong Park -- 9. Technology-enhanced TVET delivery: The potential for improving access, relevance and inclusion / Theresa Thang Tze Yian, Jonghwi Park -- 10. Achieving gender equality, job quality and diversity in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics fields / Matilda Dahlquist --; Section IV: Meeting recurrent challenges of the labour market: skill mismatch, informality and rural economy: 11. Problem of skills mismatch in Asia and the Pacific: How useful are the existing measurement for future skills strategies? / Makiko Matsumoto, Ruttiya Bhula-or -- 12. From the informal to the formal economy: Skills initiatives in India / Santosh Mehrotra -- 13. Rethinking skills for the rural economy in Asia and the Pacific / Phu Huynh -- Section V: Enabling a just transition towards environmentally sustainable economies and green growth: 14. Towards inclusive growth through green jobs, skills and entrepreneurship: A Pacific perspective / Jean-Hugues Hatier -- 15. Transition towards a green economy: Enterprise restructuring, skills and job resettlement in China for continued employability / Lixin Zhang.