| Description |
xvii, 317 pages : charts, maps ; 27 cm |
| Series |
World development report, 0163-5085 ; 2007 |
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World development report. 0163-5085 ; 2007
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| Contents |
Overview -- Pt. 1 Why now, and how? -- Youth, poverty reduction, and growth -- Opportunities, capabilities, second chances: a framework for policy -- Pt. 2 Transitions -- Learning for work and life -- Going to work -- Growing up healthy -- Forming families -- Exercising citizenship Pt. 3 Across transitions and next steps -- Moving and communicating across borders -- Youth policy: doing it and getting it right |
| Summary |
World Development Report 2007 [...] discusses priorities for government actions across five youth transitions that shape young people's human capital: learning working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within these transitions, priorities for investment vary across countries. The report highlights three lenses that help assess priorities: expanding opportunities, enhancing capabilities, and providing second chances. Expanding opportunities focuses on increasing the quality (not just quantity) of education, smoothing the transition to work, and providing young people with a platform for engagement. Enhancing capabilities involves making young people aware of the consequences of their actions, especially consequences that will affect them much later in life; building their decsion-making skills; and giving them the right incentives. Providing second chances calls for helping young people recover from missed opportunities through remedial education, retraining, treatment, and rehabilitation |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references: pages 243-270 |
| Subject |
Economic development.
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International economic relations.
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Poverty -- Developing countries.
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Youth -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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Young adults -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.
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| SUBJECT |
Developing countries. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037341
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Developing countries -- Economic conditions http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037344 -- Statistics.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001414
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Developing countries -- Economic policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102080
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Developing countries http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85037341 -- Social policy.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008646
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| Genre/Form |
Statistics.
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| Author |
World Bank.
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| ISBN |
082136541X (paperback) |
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9780821365410 pbk.) |
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0821365495 (hbk.) |
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9780821365496 (hbk.) |
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9780821365427 |
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