World development report 2007 : development and the next generation

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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.

Subject Term:

Economic development.

International economic relations.

Poverty -- Developing countries.

Youth -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.

Young adults -- Developing countries -- Social conditions.

Geographic Term:

Developing countries.

Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Statistics.

Developing countries -- Economic policy.

Developing countries -- Social policy.

Added Corporate Author:

World Bank.

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Supporting young people's transition to adulthood poses important opportunities and risky challenges for development policy. Are education systems preparing young people to cope with the demands of changing economies? What kind of support do they get as they enter the labor market? Can they move freely to where the jobs are? What can be done to help them avoid serious consequences of risky behavior, such as death from HIV-AIDS and drug abuse? Can their creative energy be directed productively to support development thinking?The report focuses on crucial capabilities and transitions in a young person's life: learning for life and work, staying healthy, working, forming families, and exercising citizenship. For each, there are opportunities and risks; for all, policies and institutions matter.