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Age and gender effects on time discounting in a large scale cash transfer programme
Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015Inter-temporal choice represents one of the most fascinating topics in economics. Understanding its determinants can provide vital in sight into decisions ranging from savings and financial investment to smoking, obesity and human capital accumulation.DocumentCan a nuclear deal help Iran’s young labor force?
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, 2015Iran is poised to reap a vast “demographic dividend” if the appropriate national and international policies are adopted, including a nuclear deal with the P5+1 (five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany).DocumentMaking youth employment policies work
Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis, 2015Government policy and public investment in Kenya has focused disproportionately on formal private sector development and on education that is geared to urban wage employment as a solution to youth unemployment. A closer look at the figures, however, reveals that underemployment, especially in rural areas, is the greater challenge.DocumentChildren’s experiences of household poverty dynamics in Ethiopia
Young Lives, 2014Drawing on three rounds of survey and qualitative data, this paper examines household poverty dynamics and child well-being in Ethiopian communities. The survey data indicate that many of the households remained in poverty, whereas a few others moved up or down over the years.DocumentThe labor mobility-employment nexus: a general equilibrium analysis for Jordan
Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2014While studies on the impact of migration on host countries are still dominant, interest in the emigration impact on the home country's labour market is increasing.DocumentThe employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: conditional transfer programmes and the labour market
United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2014Labour markets in Latin America and the Caribbean lost momentum in 2013 compared with the sustained improvements seen over the past 10 years. Weaker formal and wage employment creation did not provoke broad expansion of the informal sector, as has occurred in the past, thanks to the number of jobs created over the past 10 years, which have pushed up incomes and reduced poverty.DocumentProfits and poverty: the economics of forced labour
International Labour Organization, 2014Today, about 21 million men, women and children are in forced labour, trafficked, held in debt bondage or work in slave-like conditions. This report builds on earlier ILO studies on the extent, cost and profits from forced labour. It looks at both the supply and demand sides of forced labour, and presents solid evidence for a correlation between forced labour and poverty.DocumentYouth in the Middle East and North Africa: demographic opportunity or challenge?
Population Reference Bureau, 2007The number of youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is projected to peak at 100 million by 2035 and to decline slowly thereafter. This policy brief gives an overview of demographic trends among youth and the implications of these trends for human and economic development in the MENA region.OrganisationKenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE)
The Kenya Community Support Center (KECOSCE) was founded in 2006 and has been working in the coastal region of Kenya. It was established to address democratic governance, socio‐economic and youtOrganisationUnited Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER)
United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU‐WIDER) was established in 1985. The institute undertakes:Pages