Title:
World development report 2007 : development and the next generation
Author:
World Bank.
ISBN:
9780821365410
9780821365496
Publication Information:
Washington, D.C. : World Bank/Oxford University Press, 2006.
Physical Description:
xvii, 317 p. : charts, maps ; 27 cm.
Series:
World development report, 2007
Series Title:
World development report, 0163-5085 ; 2007
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Overview -- Why now, and how? -- Youth, poverty reduction, and growth -- Opportunities, capabilities, second chances: a framework for policy -- Transitions -- Learning for work and life -- Going to work -- Growing up healthy -- Forming families -- Exercising citizenship Across transitions and next steps -- Moving and communicating across borders -- Youth policy: doing it and getting it right.
Abstract:
World Development Report 2007 [...] discusses priorities for government actions across five youth transitions that shape young people's human capital: learning working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within these transitions, priorities for investment vary across countries. The report highlights three lenses that help assess priorities: expanding opportunities, enhancing capabilities, and providing second chances. Expanding opportunities focuses on increasing the quality (not just quantity) of education, smoothing the transition to work, and providing young people with a platform for engagement. Enhancing capabilities involves making young people aware of the consequences of their actions, especially consequences that will affect them much later in life; building their decsion-making skills; and giving them the right incentives. Providing second chances calls for helping young people recover from missed opportunities through remedial education, retraining, treatment, and rehabilitation.
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