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  Designing active labor market policies in southern Punjab: evidence from household and community surveys

  2015

  The Punjab Economic Opportunities Programme (PEOP) is a flagship programme of the Government of Punjab being implemented in partnership with DfID.
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  Centre for Economic Research in Pakistan (CERP)

  The Center for Economic Research in Pakistan’s strategic objective is to help catalyse international quality economic research on Pakistan and inform policy and practice in the country.
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  IFC jobs study: assessing private sector contributions to job creation and poverty reduction

  World Bank, 2013

  The private sector provides approximately 90 percent of jobs in developing countries. It is essential to understand the constraints that private companies face in creating jobs. The public sector and development finance institutions must assist by creating an environment without obstacles that is conducive to employment and productivity. 
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  World development report: jobs

  World Bank, 2012

  The World Development Report 2013 focuses on jobs. It stresses the role of strong private sector led growth in creating jobs and outlines how jobs that do the most for development can spur a virtuous cycle. The report finds that poverty falls as people work their way out of hardship and as jobs empower women to invest more in their children.
• Organisation

  Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF)

  Punjab Skills Development Fund (PSDF) aims to provide quality skills and vocational training opportunities to the poor and vulnerable populations of the fourteen target districts of Punjab in order to
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  ‘Leave no one behind’: gender, sexuality and the Sustainable Development Goals

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2015

  In 2015, as the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) come to an end, a new generation of world leaders, government officials, donors and civil society organisations, have joined forces to articulate their vision for a future where all people can contribute to, and benefit from, an inclusive development framework.
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  Poverty in a rising Africa: overview

  World Bank, 2015

  Poverty in a Rising Africa is the first of a two-part volume on poverty in Africa aimed at better understanding progress in poverty reduction in Africa and articulating a policy agenda to accelerate it.
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  The economics and psychology of long term savings and pensions: a randomised experiment among low-income entrepreneurs in Maharashtra, India

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  It is widely accepted that access to banking can provide both growth and security to vulnerable households. It is also well understood that poor households, especially in developing countries, tend to be underserved by credit markets. In recent decades, the question of credit has emerged as a major focus in development economics.
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  What happens once the intervention ends? The medium-term impacts of a cash transfer programme in Malawi

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  Adolescent girls in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) face a multitude of hazards during their transition from childhood to adulthood.
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  Expanding lessons from a randomised impact evaluation of cash and food transfers in Ecuador and Uganda

  International Initiative for Impact Evaluation, 2015

  There is now substantial evidence that periodic cash transfers to poor households as a form of social protection, particularly when conditional on complementary investments in child schooling and health, can lead to substantial and sustained improvements in household welfare, household food security and child schooling.

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