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Employment Generation in Rural Africa : Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda

Blattman, Christopher - 2013

Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … reduce the risk of social instability? We experimentally evaluate one of Uganda's largest development programs, which … monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic impacts of the …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013091251

Employment Generation in Rural Africa : Mid-Term Results from an Experimental Evaluation of the Youth Opportunities Program in Northern Uganda

Blattman, Christopher - 2011

Can cash transfers promote employment and reduce poverty in rural Africa? Will lower youth unemployment and poverty … reduce the risk of social instability? The authors experimentally evaluate one of Uganda's largest development programs … central monitoring and accountability, most youth invest the transfer in vocational skills and tools. Second, the economic …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012247911

A proposal for the unification of social protection benefits for children, youth and those vulnerable to poverty

Soares, Sergei; Bartholo, Letícia; Osorio, Rafael Guerreiro - 2019

Social protection policy in Brazil is a historically built patchwork of programmes that pay different values to people in the same situation, leaves many unprotected (in particular, 17 million children) and is fraught with duplications and other inefficiencies. This paper proposes an approach...

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