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Gambia, The - Youth Employment and Skills Development Study : Improving Youth Employment Outcomes Through Enhanced Skills Development

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Despite substantial improvements in access to basic education and steady economic growth, The Gambia still faces considerable challenges in respect to reducing poverty. As the result of its narrow economic base and its reduced internal market, the country will continue to rely heavily on the...

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Kosovo - Youth in Jeopardy : Being Young, Unemployed, and Poor in Kosovo

World Bank - 2012

The main objective of the report is to provide diagnosis on youth employment, which can provide the basis for future policy design. The report is structured as follows: the chapter one provides a general background of macroeconomic and employment outcomes in Kosovo. The chapter then explains the...

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Harnessing Youth Potential in Ghana

World Bank - 2016

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...

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Coding Bootcamps for Youth Employment : Evidence from Colombia, Lebanon, and Kenya

World Bank (contributor) - World Bank - 2018

Coding bootcamps are intensive short-term programs designed to train participants in programming skills to make them immediately employable. They combine characteristics of traditional vocational training programs with the intensity of military bootcamps for new recruits, intermingling socio...

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Supporting Youth Employment through Cash Grants for Entrepreneurship

World Bank - 2023

Benin's labor market is characterized by a high participation rate, but extensive informality and underemployment. Underemployment is even higher among youth and rural women. The labor market is also extremely segregated by gender. Under the Benin Youth Employment Project(PEJ), closed in June...

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Promoting Skills Development for Youth in Zambia

World Bank - 2024

This report provides an overview of Zambia's labor market, highlights key potential sectors for future economic development and employment growth, and analyses the challenges faced by the technical education, vocational, and entrepreneurship training (TEVET) system as it seeks to respond to...

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Indonesia, wages and employment

Lluch, Constantino - 1985

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Are skills rewarded in Sub-Saharan Africa? : determinants of wages and productivity in the manufacturing sector

Fox, M. Louise - 2008

members, whereas in civil-law countries, only older members enjoy higher wages. The authors also contrast wage premia with …

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Trends in tariff reforms and trends in wage inequality

Galiano, Sebastian - 2006

"The authors provide new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages and wage inequality in developing countries … wages and wage inequality. After setting up unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, trends in wages, and trends …) has reduced wages, and (2) has increased wage inequality. "--World Bank web site …

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