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The Success of Learnerships: Lessons from South Africa’s Training and Education ProgrammeFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Economic aspects (Education) Human capital UnemploymentBook Chapter
Education Policy, Vocational Training, and the Youth in Sub-Saharan AfricaFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Education Finance (Education) PopulationBook Chapter
Young People, Agriculture and Employment in Rural AfricaFrom the book: African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization
Agriculture Economic development EntrepreneurshipWorking Paper
South African Labour Market Transitions During the Global Financial and Economic Crisis: Micro-Level EvidenceThis paper studies individual-level labour market transitions and their determinants in South Africa during the zenith and aftermath of the global financial and economic crisis using 2008 to 2010-2011 panel data from the National Income Dynamics Stud...
Econometric models (Economic development) Financial crisis Labor marketWorking Paper
Young People, Agriculture, and Employment in Rural AfricaThis paper examines the current interest in addressing the problem of young people’s unemployment in Africa through agriculture...
Agriculture Economic development EntrepreneurshipJournal Article
Introducing carbon taxes in South AfricaSouth Africa is considering introducing a carbon tax to reduce greenhouse gas emissions...
Carbon tax Income distribution Public welfareWorking Paper
Education Policy, Vocational Training, and the Youth in Sub-Saharan AfricaTechnical, vocational education, and training has remained an explosive topic because it can create a divided society in terms of education and the benefits associated with it...
Education Finance (Education) PopulationWorking Paper
The Success of Learnerships?: Lessons from South Africa’s Training and Education ProgrammeVocational training programmes, like South Africa’s learnership programme, which combine classroom learning and on-the-job training seem like the type of intervention which can create skills, get young people into jobs quicker, and reduce youth...
Economic aspects (Education) Human capital UnemploymentBook Chapter
Macroeconomic Policies, Growth, Employment, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin AmericaFrom the book: Falling Inequality in Latin America
Economic development Equality and inequality MacroeconomicsWorking Paper
State-Building Through Neotrusteeship: Kosovo and East Timor in Comparative PerspectiveWhy do some states, with foreign assistance, transition from ‘fragile’ to ‘robust?’ Scholars in state-building have argued that neotrusteeship is an effective strategy by which external organizations might build post-conflict ...
Conflict management Crime Economic assistance and foreign aidBlog
A New Agenda for a New World
24 June 2013 Minister Gunilla Carlson Like every political agenda, the post-2015 agenda must be firmly based in a reality check...
Economic development Emigration and immigration Free tradeBlog
Youth Employment: A Key Issue
Economist Imed Drine recently left UNU-WIDER and headed with his family for Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, to take up a new position as a senior economist with the Islamic Development Bank...
Methodology (Quantitative research) Infrastructure (Economics) Institutional economicsSeminar
Global crisis and the impact on emerging economiesUnited Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER) is pleased to announce the following seminar by Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics of the World Bank Global...
Journal Article
Youth unemployment and the Arab SpringMany observers see youth unemployment as the major reason behind the recent popular uprisings in a number of Arab countries...
Unemployment YouthBlog
Jobs are Development
Carl-Gustav Lindén One important part of ReCom–Research and Communication on Foreign Aid is the sharing of results...
Economic assistance and foreign aid Economic development projects Structural adjustment (Economic policy)