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Back to School : Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education

Rajasekaran, Subhashini - 2009

"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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Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence

Chakravarty, Shubha - 2016

Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth …

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Young People Speak Out : Youth Consultations for the World Development Report 2007

Mangiaterra, Viviana - 2006

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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When the Money Runs Out : Do Cash Transfers Have Sustained Effects on Human Capital Accumulation?

Baird, Sarah - 2016

This study examines the medium-term effects of a two-year cash transfer program targeted to adolescent girls and young women. Significant declines in HIV prevalence, teen pregnancy, and early marriage among recipients of unconditional cash transfers (UCTs) during the program evaporated quickly...

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The use of financial incentives to prevent undesirable behaviors

De Walque, Damien - 2018

Behaviors that are putting people's health and well-being at risk are widespread in the developing world and some of them, like smoking and unhealthy diets, are on the rise. Some of these behaviors can be prohibited or prevented by taxation. But financial incentives such as conditional cash...

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Exchange Rate Volatility and FDI Inflows : Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data

Hanusch, Marek - 2018

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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The Effect of New PPP Estimates on Global Poverty : A First Look

Atamanov, Aziz - 2020

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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Small Firm Death in Developing Countries

McKenzie, David J. - 2017

Small firms are an important source of income for the poor in developing countries, and the target of many interventions designed to help them grow. But there is no systematic information on the failure or death of such firms. The paper puts together 16 panel surveys from 12 different developing...

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Weak Instruments in Growth Regressions : Implications for Recent Cross-Country Evidence on Inequality and Growth

Kraay, Aart - 2015

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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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the GTAP9 Database

Roson, Roberto - 2016

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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