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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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Bulgaria : Piloting Statistical Models for Estimation of Schools' Value-Added Using the Results from the National Assessments

Danchev, Plamen - 2015

The objective of this report is to document the process and summarize the results from the second phase of the pilot implementation of statistical models for measuring the value-added of Bulgarian schools through analysis of the national student' assessments results. This report presents the...

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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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Enterprise Skills and Firm Performance in Zambia : Evidence from Structural Equation Modeling of a Skills Demand Model

World Bank Group - 2018

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Gradual Versus Big-Bang Devaluations : An Empirical Analysis

Geiger, Michael - 2018

This paper examines the pros and cons of gradual versus big-bang approaches toward devaluations. It presents original empirical evidence regarding output, consumption, investment and trade balances associated with gradual and big-bang devaluation episodes. It finds that big-bang devaluations are...

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Challenges for Resolution of Banks in Sub-Saharan Africa

Barend Jansen, Jan - 2019

While the recent global financial crisis has affected many developed countries, it has had less impact in Africa. Nevertheless, the lessons learned from this crisis are relevant for African countries, especially because banking groups with a head office in Africa have grown rapidly and these...

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The Monsoon Shock in Rural Nepal : Panel Evidence from the Household Risk and Vulnerability Survey

Jacoby, Hanan G. - 2019

Monsoon rainfall is a key driver of economic life in rural Nepal as well as a major source of income variability. In this paper, the authors use a newly collected 3-year panel data set, representative of rural Nepal, merged with global monthly precipitation data to investigate the nature of the...

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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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