. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage …

Lusaka, Zambia, to analyse pathways for, and challenges to, greater social mobility for youth against the background of … economic, political, and spatial processes that are affecting urban livelihoods in the region, facilitating or hindering youth …

in Sub-Saharan Africa were policies have too often prescribed it as the panacea to addressing youth unemployment. On the … one hand, it seems logical means of addressing youth unemployment and on the other hand, vocationalization has never … proven to be a straightforward solution or remedy to youth unemployment in Sub-Saharan Africa. It has not been able to …

of youth start-ups. Our paper contributes to closing the gap in the entrepreneurship and development literature with a … productive start-ups than subsidies. The case for interventions targeted at youth rises in societies with high costs of youth … unemployment. We test the role of skills and training for productive youth entrepreneurship on data from a recent survey of …

the initial conditions. We analyse the static nature of vulnerable employment-especially youth unemployment and … for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. We find growing trends of vulnerable employment, particularly for youth cohorts …

-the-job training seem like the type of intervention which can create skills, get young people into jobs quicker, and reduce youth …