Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and … Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers out-of-school and out-of-work youth two months of public works employment … completion. The control group consists of observably similar youth living in areas not served by the program. Project …

Skills and Jobs in Brazil: An Agenda for Youth is a new report focusing on the challenge of economic engagement among … the Brazilian youth. In the context of a fast aging population, Brazil's greatest economic opportunity is to increase its … labor productivity, especially that of youth. This report documents important new facts about the extent of the youth …

"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 …

This policy note provides a view of the main challenges facing Ghana youth and proposes policy options to address them …. The note: (i) highlights youth key characteristics from the perspective of their skills and jobs and the constraints they … face, (ii) describes the institutional set up and strategy governing youth employment interventions in Ghana and what is …

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

documents patterns, trends, correlates, and the labor market effects of formal off-the-job training of youth, based on national …

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 …

Poverty reduction and youth employment remain deeply intertwined in Mauritania. Mauritania's job-related challenge is … exclusion. With youth (15-24 year olds) comprising over 40 percent of the population as of 2014, they are particularly … Mauritania, with a focus on constraints and opportunities facing youth over the short to long term. To this end, it assesses …

youth in peacebuilding. The report's recommendations postulate a comprehensive understanding of youth, peace, and conflict …

aim internationally, as exemplified by the 2030 United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals related to youth … employment. Many low-income countries, including Nepal, are in the middle of a youth bulge in their demographic structure. In … addition, today's youth in Nepal are, on average, more educated than past generations. These developments present real …