This paper investigates the impact of the GFC on youth unemployment and long term unemployment. In particular, we study whether the GFC had a bigger impact on youths than adults, and whether youth unemployment rates increased due to an increase in youth wages relative to adult wages. To...

The global economic and financial crisis has grown far larger than first anticipated and has affected the world at unprecedented level. The financial crisis is considered by many economists to be the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. The down turn in economic...

This paper examines the current global economic crisis and its challenges on youth and children development. It argues that global economic depression has impacted negatively on the economic and socio-cultural well-being of households and nation – states occasioning fundamental crisis on youth...

This paper investigates the impact, as well as the channels of transmission, of recent financial crisis on economic growth and youth employment in three major South Asian countries: India, Pakistan and Bangladesh that together represent more than 97 percent of the population and 96 percent of...