Across the globe, the 'Girl Effect' is a growing but understudied initiative that assumes that girls are catalysts capable of bringing social and economic change to their families, communities and countries. In an attempt to build on the 'promise' of women as agents of development, there has...

The paper presents new findings on a specific 'gendered' problem resulting from 'activation policies' and a certain group of unemployed which has been widely neglected so far in public and academic discourse although it is both quantitatively significant and reveals systematic failures of...