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The impact of educational achievement on the integration and wellbeing of Afghan refugee youth in the UK

Gladwell, Catherine; Thomas, Jennie; Chetwynd, Georgina; … - 2018

Unprecedented numbers of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children have arrived in Europe over the last decade, and young Afghans account for the highest proportion of unaccompanied asylum-seeking children across the UK. Despite research exploring the experiences of child refugees and asylum...

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Empowering youth : the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy in Ecuador

Aguirre, Kamila; Carrión-Yaguana, Vanessa D. - 2023

This paper analyses the impact of comprehensive sex education on teenage pregnancy rates in Ecuador, specifically examining its implementation in schools. The inclusion of sex education as a mandatory cross-cutting theme in the updated and strengthened educational curriculum of 2010 provides a...

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Redistribution without structural change in Ecuador : rising and falling income inequality in the 1990s and 2000s

Ponce, Juan; Vos, Rob - 2012

This study examines the rise and fall in income inequality in Ecuador over the past two decades. Falling income equality during the 2000s partly coincides with the rise to power of a "new leftist" government, but the trend was already set early in the decade. The recent trend is mainly...

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Iran's multi-ethnic mosaic : a 23-year perspective

Fesharaki, Sanaz; Majbouri, Mahdi - 2016

In this study, we embark on measuring inequality in Iran. We compute three measures of group-based inequality (Group-weighted Coefficient of Variation, Group-weighted Gini, and Group-weighted Theil) for the following outcomes: education, assets, income, and expenditure per capita. The groups are...

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Cities of youth : post-millennial cases of mobility and sociality

Hansen, Karen Tranberg - 2014

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 …

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Education policy, vocational training, and the youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Oketch, Moses - 2014

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 …

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Youth, violence, and sustaining peace

Justino, Patricia - 2023

Violent conflicts affect the lives and livelihoods of almost one quarter of the world's population. But the effects of violent conflict are not uniform. This study assesses the differential effects of violent conflict on young people's education, job prospects, and forms of civic engagement and...

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India's political economy responses to the global food price shock of 2007 - 08 : learning some lessons

Gulati, Ashok; Saini, Shweta - 2015

India's policy responses to the food price crisis were strong. Exports of basic staples were banned. Domestic support prices of wheat and rice were raised substantially. The urea price increases in global markets were absorbed through enhanced fertilizer subsidies. The government launched the...

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Does food insecurity impact subjective evaluation of well-being? : evidence from a developing country

Akpalu, Wisdom; Christian, Aaron K.; Codjoe, Samuel Nii … - 2015

Understanding the relationship between food insecurity and subjective evaluation of well-being is critical in designing social welfare policies, especially in developing countries. Surprisingly, literature on the topic is scarce. This study adopted Van Praag's theoretical framework and used...

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COVID-19 and informal work : degrees and pathways of impact in 11 cities around the world

Chen, Martha Alter; Grapsa, Erofili; Ismail, Ghida; … - 2022

This paper presents findings from two rounds (2020 and 2021) of a study on the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on informal workers in 11 cities across five regions of the world (Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Latin America, and North America). The study, carried out by the WIEGO network in...

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