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Improving the Quality of Primary Education in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Wolff, L.; Schiefelbein, E.; Valenzuela, J. - World Bank Group - 1994
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005479239
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Employment generation in rural Africa : mid-term results from an experimental evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda
Blattman, Christopher; Fiala, Nathan; Martinez, Sebastian - World Bank Group - 2011
Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty reduce the risk of social instability? The authors experimentally evaluate one of Uganda's largest development programs, which provided thousands of young people nearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009493326
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The nuts and bolts of designing and implementing training programs in developing countries
Honorati, Maddalena; McArdle, Thomas P - World Bank Group - 2013
Training programs mainly address market failures related to lack of skills (technical, cognitive, non-cognitive). This paper conducts a comprehensive review of training programs effectiveness in developing countries. Based on relevant international experiences, the paper highlights key design...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672306
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Entrepreneurship programs in developing countries : a meta regression analysis
Cho, Yoonyoung; Honorati, Maddalena - World Bank Group - 2013
Fostering entrepreneurship is widely perceived to be a critical policy agenda to expand employment and earning opportunities and to reduce poverty. Sound macroeconomic conditions and business environment including infrastructure, regulation, and legal environment have typically been emphasized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643255
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Middle childhood : protecting and promoting human development in times of economic shocks
Hempel, Kevin; Wuermli, Alice; Lundberg, Mattias - World Bank Group - 2012
Middle childhood (approximately 6-12 years old) is a crucial time for developing cognitive and socio emotional competencies, and economic crises can affect children's development with long-lasting consequences for adolescence and adulthood. This note provides an overview of how economic shocks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828433
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Youth employment : a human development agenda for the next decade
Robalino, David; Margolis, David; Rother, Friederike; … - World Bank Group - 2013
This paper reviews the main challenges facing countries in attempting to improve labor market outcomes among youth, focusing on the issues that became starkly visible during the recent financial crisis. In order to better identify and set uphuman development interventions, the paper proposes an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010828447
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Advancing adult learning in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Bodewig, Christian; Hirshleifer, Sarojini - World Bank Group - 2011
This report presents available evidence on adult education and training in Europe and Central Asia (ECA …), differentiating two separate types: continuing vocational education and training (CVET) for the employed, sought either by employers … or individuals, and retraining and second chance education for the non?employed. This paper presents available evidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009000965
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Child labor and school enrollment in Thailand in the 1990s
Tzannatos, Zafiris - World Bank Group - 1998
suggests that at younger ages (below 14) direct education costs deter school attendance. As the child gets older, income … effects become more important determinants of child labor than the costs of education. This report examines what incentives … the household can be provided with to keep children in school, the role of public education, and what can be done in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676627
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Disability, poverty and schooling in developing countries : results from eleven household surveys
Filmer, Deon - World Bank Group - 2005
This paper analyzes the relationship between whether a young person has a disability, the poverty status of their household, and their school participation using 11 household surveys from nine developing countries. Between 1 and 2 percent of the population is identified as having a disability....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676632
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Non-public provision of active labor market programs in Arab- Mediterranean countries : an inventory of youth programs
Angel-Urdinola, Diego F.; Semlali, Amina; Brodmann, Stefanie - World Bank Group - 2010
This note presents and analyzes the main design features of an inventory of non-publicly provided Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) in Arab-Mediterranean Countries (AMCs), with a specific focus on programs targeted at youth. Despite considerable international evidence, there is little...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008676636