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4.7
Women's creativity

is yet to be released

Local governments and organisations are often concerned
with a shortage of talent, but a study suggests that many

countries do not make full use of their human capital.

According to the Global Human Capital Report 2017 from
268 the World Economic Forum, only 25 of the 130 countries

assessed have made full use of their talent (i.e. a human
resource utilisation rate of 70% or higher); while most
countries are at 50-70%, 14 countries are lower than 50%.
According to the report, many countries actually have

talent, but they lack training to update workers’ skills, or
their resource allocation is not ideal, so the people are not
given enough opportunities to fully apply their strengths.

For example, many women failed to receive equal pay for
equal work, which weakened their enthusiasm for work.