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"Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem …--200 million adolescents and youth are out of school, live in adverse life circumstances, and face multiple disadvantages … variations in both individual and contextual characteristics of the targeted youth. The synthesized findings from this review are …
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Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth …
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stakeholder consultation processes to date. Given the focus of the 2007 WDR on youth, it was especially important to devise a … consultative process that will foster a dialogue not only about youth but also with young people themselves. At the same time, it … had to be made clear to the youth constituency that the report could not be written by youth. The consultations had three …
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Methodology and Estimation Issues -- 2 Demand-Driven Structural Change in Applied General Equilibrium Models -- 3 Micro …
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Using a panel of 80 developing and developed countries for the period 1990-2015, this studyanalyses the relationship between exchange rate volatility and foreign direct investment (FDI)inflows. The results reveal a negative relationship between de facto exchange rate volatility andFDI. Reducing...
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This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 and new 2017 PPPs published in May 2020. The revised 2011 PPPs slightly increase poverty in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for...
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The thesis of Kristina Reimer provides a comprehensive analysis of asymmetric cost behavior (also known as cost stickiness) by discussing its origin and development in the theoretical and empirical research from the 1920s of the past century up until today. Further, using an empirical approach,...
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Christoph Michael Hindermann uses a statistical approach to analyze the impact of economic freedom on state legitimacy. Based on multiple regression models, the author not only extracts the determinants of legitimacy but also shows that rule of law is the most important area of economic freedom...
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This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four studies report strongly significant negative effects, using the popular system generalized method of moments estimator that is frequently used in cross-country growth empirics. This...
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Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...
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