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Back to School : Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education

Rajasekaran, Subhashini - 2009

"Back to School: Pathways for Reengagement of Out-of-School Youth in Education" focuses on a social and global problem …--200 million adolescents and youth are out of school, live in adverse life circumstances, and face multiple disadvantages … variations in both individual and contextual characteristics of the targeted youth. The synthesized findings from this review are …

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Providing Out-of-School Adolescent Girls with Skills : A Review of the Global Evidence

Chakravarty, Shubha - 2016

Skills development offers a range of benefits to out-of-school adolescent girls and alleviates a key obstacle to youth …

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Young People Speak Out : Youth Consultations for the World Development Report 2007

Mangiaterra, Viviana - 2006

stakeholder consultation processes to date. Given the focus of the 2007 WDR on youth, it was especially important to devise a … consultative process that will foster a dialogue not only about youth but also with young people themselves. At the same time, it … had to be made clear to the youth constituency that the report could not be written by youth. The consultations had three …

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Corruption and country size : evidence using firm-level survey data

Amin, Mohammed; Yew Chong Soh - 2019

What sorts of conditions make some countries more prone to corruption than the others? This is an important question for understanding how corruption arises and how to combat it. The present paper attempts to answer this question by exploring the link between the size of the country and...

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What determines the size of public employment? : an empirical investigation

Herrera Aguilera, Santiago; Muñoz S., Ercio - 2019

This paper explores the determinants of public employment across the world and finds that it is negatively associated with country size (by population) and positively associated with the income level. The findings show that a country's openness to trade is positively associated with public...

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Exchange Rate Volatility and FDI Inflows : Evidence from Cross-Country Panel Data

Hanusch, Marek - 2018

Using a panel of 80 developing and developed countries for the period 1990-2015, this studyanalyses the relationship between exchange rate volatility and foreign direct investment (FDI)inflows. The results reveal a negative relationship between de facto exchange rate volatility andFDI. Reducing...

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The Effect of New PPP Estimates on Global Poverty : A First Look

Atamanov, Aziz - 2020

This paper provides an initial analysis of the impact on the World Bank's global poverty estimates of the revised 2011 and new 2017 PPPs published in May 2020. The revised 2011 PPPs slightly increase poverty in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa, causing the extreme poverty headcount ratio for...

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Weak Instruments in Growth Regressions : Implications for Recent Cross-Country Evidence on Inequality and Growth

Kraay, Aart - 2015

This paper revisits four recent cross-country empirical studies on the effects of inequality on growth. All four studies report strongly significant negative effects, using the popular system generalized method of moments estimator that is frequently used in cross-country growth empirics. This...

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Estimation of Climate Change Damage Functions for 140 Regions in the GTAP9 Database

Roson, Roberto - 2016

Climate change damage (or, more correctly, impact) functions relate variations in temperature (or other climate variables) to economic impacts in various dimensions, and are at the basis of quantitative modeling exercises for the assessment of climate change policies. This document provides a...

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Social Capital, Trust, and Well-being in the Evaluation of Wealth

Hamilton, Kirk - 2016

This paper combines theory with data from different domains to provide an empirical analysis of the scale and variability of social capital as wealth. The analysis is used to argue, given what has been learned from the literature on social capital, that the welfare returns to investing in trust...

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