Youth employment
- Meeting youth unemployment head on
- At 21 per cent, youth unemployment in Africa is much higher than the world average. This chapter, from the "Economic report on Africa 2005" examines the causes and consequences of youth unemployment in Africa, and looks at the issues of addressing youth unemployment.
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- How to develop a National Action Plan on youth employment
- ( G. Rosas;G. Rossignotti / International Labour Organization , 2008)
- This guide seeks to respond to the need of countries to have a framework for the development of National Action Plans (NAPs) on youth employment. More specifically, this document is designed to: ...
- Improving the effeciveness of NGOs working on issues of youth unemployment in the Balkans
- ( R. Karajkov / One World Action , 2007)
- The Balkan region experienced exploding youth unemployment rates with the beginning of the transition in 1989, ranging from 18 per cent in Romania to over 60 per cent in Macedonia. Youth employment ra...
- What is wrong with new laws against child labour in India?
- ( N. Reddy;I. Srinath;J. Seabrooke / The Concerned for Working Children , 2006)
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Could India’s child labour laws be doing more harm than good? In 2006 the Government of India introduced new laws against the employment of children under the age of 14 in domestic work, agri...
- Early parenthood and poverty (but not work) contribute to early school leaving among Brazil’s poor
- ( A.R Cardoso; D. Verner / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank , 2007)
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This paper uses statistical analysis to identify the major drop-out and push-out factors that lead to school abandonment in the urban shantytowns of Fortaleza, northeast Brazil.
Based on surveys of ...
- Why do so many primary-age children in Cambodia work?
- ( United Nations [UN] Children's Fund , 2006)
- In Cambodia, more than half of all children begin working by the age of 10. This report provides an overview of the child labour phenomenon in Cambodia — its extent and nature, its determinants, and t...
- What factors can help young people after release from prison? Findings from Brazil
- ( J.D. McLennan; I. Bordin / Child Rights Information Network , 2006)
- What factors make young people in Brazil more or less likely to be put in prison, and what happens to them after incarceration? This report presents findings from a project that used surveys and inter...
- African countries lack the information they need to tackle youth unemployment
- ( T. Bossuroy; J. Cling; P. De Vreyer; M. Durand / Développement, Institutions & Analyses de Long terme , 2007)
- What are the trends in African youth unemployment? This review of the literature concludes that, though it appears to be a growing problem, the serious lack of labour market data across Africa means t...
- Young people in Zimbabwe aspire to self employment and overseas work
- ( A.W. Little; C.M. Nherera / Eldis Document Store , 2005)
- How has economic liberalisation affected young Zimbabweans’ aspirations with regard to education and work? This paper examines this question through using household interviews to compare young people’...
- Addressing supply, demand and job matching: the essential components of youth employment projects
- ( A. Johannsen; F. Tibitanzl; I. Kausch / Bundesministerium fur wirtschaftliche Zusammenarbeit und Entwicklung , 2006)
- This discussion paper describes the youth employment promotion (YEP) approach to addressing youth unemployment and underemployment in developing countries. It discusses the characteristics and causes ...
- Results from a field study survey: the majority of young people say that they expect to be self-employed
- ( A.W. Little; N. Fernando; S.T. Hettige / Eldis Document Store , 2006)
- How has globalisation affected young people’s livelihood aspirations, and their ability to achieve those goals? This question is explored in this report from Udapuwwa, a predominantly Tamil rural vill...
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