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    Climbing the inclusion ladder: artisanal gold mining in Tanzania

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2017
    Tanzania faces significant development challenges. While gross domestic product growth remains relatively impressive, many sectors are growing off a small base. Both the longevity of the acceleration and the quality of the growth are in question. Tanzania’s educational outcomes remain poor, and young people are less likely to find good quality employment.
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    Africa’s youth employment challenge: new perspectives | IDS Bulletin Vol 48, No 3

    Institute of Development Studies UK, 2017
    Youth and employment concepts are not new to development discourse in sub-Saharan Africa but over the last decade interest has increased dramatically, becoming a much more important focus for policy, intervention and research throughout the continent (and globally).
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    Explaining low employment rates among older women in urban China

    Institute for Fiscal Studies, London, 2017
    In China, the employment rate among middle-aged and older urban residents is exceptionally low. For example, 27% of 55-64-year-old urban women were in work in 2013, compared to more than 50% in UK, Thailand and Philippines.
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    Means testing vs. universal targeting: assumptions of efficiency and affordability

    HelpAge International, 2016
    Whether social protection benefits should be assigned to all (universal) or kept only for those who meet certain criteria (targeting) remains one of the most contentious questions in social policy research. The purpose of this brief is to revisit two social policy assumptions around basic concerns of efficiency, affordability and sustainability of universal social pensions.
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    Introducing the Tunisia Labor Market Panel Survey 2014

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2016
    The Egypt Labor Market Panel Surveys (ELMPSs) of 1998, 2006, and 2012 and Jordan Labor Market Panel Survey (JLMPS) of 2010 have become well-recognised data sources for labour market studies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).
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    Ageing in the Caribbean and the human rights of older persons: Twin imperatives for action

    United Nations [UN] Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, 2016
    Over the next twenty years, the Caribbean will see a rapid and dramatic ageing of its population. Over this period, the number of older persons will double: the number of persons aged 60 and over will increase from 1.1 million (or 13 per cent of the population) in 2015 to 2 million (or 22 per cent) in 2035.
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    Rainbow at risk: improving South Africa's prospects

    Institute for Security Studies, 2016
    South Africa needs to build an inclusive economy where broad-basedeconomic growth creates productive jobs for the unemployed; increases
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    Sticks rather than carrots to induce more formality

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2016
    Formalization has many potential benefits for the government, firms, workers, the economy and society. Decisions by firms to move into the formal economy depend on their cost/benefit calculations.
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    Social Protection for the elderly as a development strategy: a case study of Kenya's old persons cash transfer programme

    Instituto de Estudos Sociais e Económicos (IESE), 2016
    Kenya has made progressive investments in social protection forthe ageing, providing lessons and existing opportunities for similar programmes. In Kenya, there has been a paradigm shift from universal social protection schemes targeted at formal employees to inclusive schemes including both formal and informal sectors, corporations and individuals.
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    Population ageing in the Small Island Developing States of Africa: trends and socioeconomic implications

    UN Economic Commission for Africa, 2016
    Ageing of the population poses several profound impacts on every aspect of life. This phenomenon has been visible in the Small Island Developing States of Africa (SIDS) and is expected to continue in the next few decades as the SIDS are continuously experiencing one of the fastest ageing populations in Africa.

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