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Can public works programs reduce youth crime? : evidence from Papua New Guinea’s urban youth employment project

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This paper evaluates an intervention to raise young women's economic empowerment in Sierra Leone, where women frequently experience sexual violence and face multiple economic disadvantages. The intervention provides them with a protective space (a club) where they can find support, receive...

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A skills-based human capital framework to understand the phenomenon of youth economic disengagement

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This paper revisits traditional human capital models and proposes a new conceptual framework of human capital accumulation, anchored in skills development, to illustrate the phenomenon and implications of youth economic disengagement. In the framework, youth economic disengagement is defined as...

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The use of financial incentives to prevent undesirable behaviors

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Behaviors that are putting people's health and well-being at risk are widespread in the developing world and some of them, like smoking and unhealthy diets, are on the rise. Some of these behaviors can be prohibited or prevented by taxation. But financial incentives such as conditional cash...

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Impact of conflict on adolescent girls in South Sudan

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