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Youth employment issues are a major concern for many countries because they have negative effects on the welfare of young people, and may also adversely affect economic performance and social stability. This is the first Independent Evaluation Group (IEG) evaluation of the World Bank Group's support to countries trying to address youth employment issues.

Proposes a new approach for a systemic and dynamic analysis of urban and peri-urban land markets in West Africa and applies it to Bamako, Mali. Based on a description of land delivery processes, it sheds light on the challenges faced by the urban poor in accessing secure land.

Under what conditions can new technologies enhance the well-being of poor communities? This study designs an alternative evaluation framework (AEF) that applies Amartya Sen's capability approach to the study of information and communications technologies (ICTs) in order to place people's well-being, rather than technology, at the centre of the study.

Skills development in Ghana encompasses foundational skills, transferable/soft-skills, and technical and vocational skills. This report focuses on one segment of this skills development system: formal and informal technical and vocational education and training (TVET) at the pre-tertiary level. TVET represents a major intersection between education, youth and the labor market. The government has long promised to the population that increasing technical and vocational skills training opportunities will help solve youth unemployment. However, market distortions and inefficiencies have led to an adverse cycle of high costs, inadequate quality of supply and low demand, leading to further pressures on the effectiveness and efficiency of TVET services. This adverse cycle means that the political and policy promise of skills development helping to ease the unemployment problem is at risk of remaining unfulfilled. The report focuses on social and economic demand for (pre-tertiary) technical and vocational skills and maps out the supply of these skills from formal and informal, private and public sectors. The dual purpose has been to both carry out an institutional and policy analysis and also to establish a platform for monitoring sector performance and assisting policy and Development Partner harmonization. The report analyzes the economic and social demand for technical and vocational skills and the suitability of the current supply as well as the effectiveness of policy, coordination and financing of technical and vocational skills development. The report annex provides the summary of economic demand analyses from the key sectors reviewed and provides a full mapping of all technical and vocational programs in Ghana. The study offers a comprehensive set of policy recommendations for improving Ghanas pre-tertiary technical and vocational skills development sector, which will be of interest to policy makers and development partners in Ghana.

Reviews the experience of workers in developing countries during the global financial crisis of 2009, asseses the recovery, and provides new evidence on the policy response that countries undertook in response to the crisis.

Evaluates the outcomes of World Bank Group support to Afghanistan from 2002-11. Despite extremely difficult security conditions, which deteriorated markedly after 2006, the World Bank Group has commendably established and sustained a large programme of support to the country.

As part of its strategy to support global trade, the World Bank Group seeks to help enhance trade finance in emerging markets. The International Finance Corporation, part of the Bank Group, introduced the Global Trade Finance Program to support the extension of trade finance. IEG's evaluation assesses the pr

Since independence, the West African subregion has been the locus of a number of large-scale conflicts and civil wars, as well as various low-intensity conflicts.This study seeks to critically examine the challenges of fragility and security in West Africa, along with the factors of resilience.

Termination pay includes severance, mass redundancy, or end-of-service pay and is widely used as income protection for the unemployed. This book reviews such arrangements wordwide, analyzing their performance and recent reform trends to improve efficiency and redistributive impact.

East Asian countries need to make the leap from middle-income to high-income countries, and higher education will be key. This report explores higher education in East Asia and the changes needed to make this happen. It focuses on how to make higher education: more responsive to the needs of the labour market; contribute to improving the innovation agenda; and more inclusive.

Pensions are under scrutiny worldwide in view of increasing life expectancy and adverse demographics. This volume offers an overview of the different approaches and experiences in Western and emerging economies and an analysis from the angle of gender, equity, solvency and stability.

Provides detailed information on the World Bank, the largest anti-poverty institution in the world, including its governance, structure, organizing principles, and areas of international interest. This book acts as a good introduction for anyone interested in understanding what the World Bank does and how it does it.

"This work is a product of the staff of The World Bank with external contributions"--T.p. verso.

Offers an understanding of gender issues and a compilation of compelling evidence of good practices and lessons learned to guide practitioners in integrating gender dimensions into agricultural projects and programs. This book draws on a wide range of experience from World Bank, Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), and other donor agencies.

An annual report of the World Bank on the external financing of developing countries. It provides monitoring and analysis of development finance, identifying key trends and policy challenges in international financial flows that are likely to affect the growth prospects of developing countries.

Explores a wide variety of pension reform issues. Topics covered in this book include new approaches to multi-pillar pension reform, the relevance of index funds for pension investment in equities, and managing public pension reserves.

The World Bank's Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE) is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge about development. This volume collects together papers from the 1999 ABCDE in Europe given by some of the most prominent thinkers on development issues.

Macroeconomic disruptions support the argument that growing financial integration has increased the urgency of providing accurate measures of long-run equilibrium exchange rates. This resource presents analysis and practical techniques for measurement.