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    Working Paper
    Education Policy, Vocational Training, and the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Technical, 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. Internationally, it has always been a complex and controversial topic...

    • Education
    • Finance (Education)
    • Population
    Book Chapter
    Education Policy, Vocational Training, and the Youth in Sub-Saharan Africa

    Part of Book African Youth and the Persistence of Marginalization

    • Education
    • Finance (Education)
    • Population
    Blog
    GHAMOD launch and training: A tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ghana
    by Kwabena Adu-Ababio, Robert Darko Osei, Jukka Pirttilä, Pia Rattenhuber June 2017

    Better social protection coverage and greater benefits in developing countries would certainly be welcomed by many. More and better forms of social...

    • Tax-benefit microsimulation
    • GHAMOD
    • SOUTHMOD
    Research Brief
    Aid and Management Training

    It is widely recognized that entrepreneurship is of critical importance to industrial development. Despite this importance we know little about the skills of business owners and managers in developing countries. In the WIDER Working Paper ‘The Role...

    • Entrepreneurship
    • Management (Technological innovations)
    • Industrial management
    Working Paper
    Worker retraining and transfer payments

    We conduct an incentive-theoretical analysis of political economy considerations in the design of social protection programmes in developing countries to accompany economic reforms. We focus on two aspects of social protection—the provision of...

    • Political economy
    • Social protection
    • Transfer payments
    Working Paper
    Who benefits from job training programmes?

    Using admission lotteries and registry data linking labour market outcomes, we study the effect of a vocational training programme focused on disadvantaged individuals in Brazil. The intensive programme is an 18-month classroom training coupled with...

    • Training
    • Employment
    • Entrepreneurship
    Book Chapter
    The Efficiency of Retraining Schemes in Hungary

    Part of Book Global Employment

    • Labour market
    • Unemployment
    Research Brief
    Is technical and vocational education and training a solution for youth unemployment?

    Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) is often seen as a silver bullet resolving issues ranging from youth unemployment to labour market-related structural change. This is particularly true for developing countries with deficient...

    • Mozambique
    • Education policy
    • Employment
    Working Paper
    The Role of Training in Fostering Cluster-Based Micro and Small Enterprises Development

    While it has been increasingly recognized that efficient management holds the key to the development of micro and small enterprises in developing countries, we know very little about the managerial capacity of business owners and managers in these...

    • Entrepreneurship
    • Industrial management
    • Industrial policy
    Report
    Survey on the school-to-work transition of technical and vocational training graduates in Mozambique

    This report documents the main conclusions of the Survey on the School-to-Work Transition of Technical and Vocational Education and Training Graduates in Mozambique. The research was planned and implemented by researchers from the United Nations...

    • Mozambique
    • Education policy
    • Employment
    Project workshop
    IGM training on designing enterprise surveys training

    The Inclusive growth in Mozambique (IGM) programme organizes, on 17 March 2022, a one-day training on designing enterprise surveys. Topics covered include sampling of formal and informal firms, survey design (finding and measuring variables of...

    17 March 2022
    Online, Maputo, Mozambique
    Past event
    Workshop
    RWAMOD training

    As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and SASPRI, are organizing an in-person training workshop for technical staff of the Rwandan government institutions on RWAMOD...

    18 October 2022 – 20 October 2022
    Kigali, Rwanda
    Past event
    Workshop
    COLMOD training

    As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at Universidad Externado de Colombia in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the International Inequalities Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science organizes a training event on...

    10 July 2023 – 14 July 2023
    Online, Colombia
    Past event
    Workshop
    Second RWAMOD training

    As part of the SOUTHMOD project, the national team at the Rwanda Revenue Authority (RRA), in collaboration with UNU-WIDER and the Southern African Social Policy Research Insights (SASPRI), are organizing the second in-person training workshop on...

    18 October 2023 – 20 October 2023
    Kigali, Rwanda
    Past event
    Workshop
    Training on CGE modelling

    The training on 2-6 July 2018 is the second part of the series of workshops, that offers an introduction to economy-wide modelling for policy analysis. The workshop is held in Maputo and it is part of the Inclusive Growth in Mozambique Programme. The...

    2 July 2018 – 6 July 2018
    Maputo, Mozambique
    Past event
    Workshop
    Training on research methods

    The Inclusive Growth in Mozambique programme will hold a 2-day training workshop on research methods, on 27-28 June at the Eduardo Mondlane University in Maputo. The event focuses on literature reviews and data sources, including training on the...

    27 June 2018 – 28 June 2018
    University of Eduardo Mondlane, Maputo, Mozambique
    Past event
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