that initiatives to end undernutrition in the region should focus on improving the diets of young children. This review of …. Children who are most at risk of experiencing poor feeding include those who are born small, have younger mothers, and live in …

effective tool to attain greater inclusion of youth in financial services, and brings out important issues of the …

accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the … framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as a state (temporary or permanent) where individuals stop accumulating human …

effectiveness of solar products in improving children's educational achievement. It found that treated households substituted solar … children's home-study hours, particularly at night and before exams. The solar lanterns initially led to an increase in school …-study environment solely through the provision of solar products may have a limited impact on children's educational achievement …

The effectiveness of a demand-driven vocational-training program for disadvantaged youth in Ulaanbaatar, the capital …

around the world. Youth are found to comprise a large share of all migrants, particularly in migration to other developing … results suggest a high degree of commonality in the youth migrant experience across a number of destination countries. In … particular, developing country youth tend to work in similar occupations all around the world, and are more concentrated in these …

youth in Sierra Leone at the onset of the Ebola crisis. The intervention provided (i) technical skills training, plus on … resilience to the Ebola shock. The effects on cognitive and noncognitive skills were positive and heterogeneous. Youth with … greater initial ability experienced more positive labor market and entrepreneurship investment impacts. Youth with less …

Crime rates in Papua New Guinea's capital city of Port Moresby are among the highest in the world. Few youth work, and … Urban Youth Employment Project. The project offers out-of-school and out-of-work youth two months of public works employment … completion. The control group consists of observably similar youth living in areas not served by the program. Project …

This paper provides experimental evidence on the effects of vocational and entrepreneurial training for Malawian youth …

of this tax cut was to lower youth unemployment. The question of how gains from payroll taxes are distributed between …