Date: Fri Sep 29 2006 - 10:13:41 AST
World development report 2007: development and the next
generation
The theme of the World Development Report (WDR) 2007 is youth, aged 12 to
24.
Website: http://tinyurl.com/bs8zl
"..Developing countries which invest in better education, healthcare, and
job training for their record numbers of young people between the ages of 12
and 24 years of age, could produce surging economic growth and sharply
reduced poverty, according to a new World Bank report launched at the Bank's
Annual Meetings in Singapore. September 16, 2006.
With 1.3 billion young people now living in the developing world-the
largest-ever youth group in history-the report says there has never been a
better time to invest in youth because they are healthier and better
educated than previous generations, and they will join the workforce with
fewer dependents because of changing demographics.
However, failure to seize this opportunity to train them more effectively
for the workplace, and to be active citizens, could lead to widespread
disillusionment and social tensions..."
"...It focuses on decisions concerning the five phases with the biggest
long-term impact on how human capital is kept safe, developed, and deployed.
For each phase (continuing to learn, starting to work, developing a
healthful lifestyle, beginning a family, and exercising citizenship)
governments must increase investments directly and cultivate an environment
for young people and their families to invest in themselves.
The WDR suggests that a youth lens on policies affecting the five phases
would help focus on three broad directions: expanding opportunities,
enhancing capabilities, and providing second chances. Each pathway
(opportunities, capabilities, and second chances) is applied to each of the
transitions, generating reform suggestions.To mobilize the economic and
political resources to stimulate such reforms, countries must resolve three
issues: better coordination and integration with national policy, stronger
voice, and more evaluation. In addition, the WDR examines both youth
migration, and their increasing use of new technologies.."
Content:
PDF 17 pages
Table of Contents, Foreword, Acknowledgements, Methodological Note
PDF 23 pages
Overview
PDF 23 pages
Ch. 1: Youth, poverty reduction and growth
PDF 22 pages
Ch. 2 Opportunities, capabilities, second chances: A framework for
policy
PDF 29 pages
Ch. 3: Learning for work and life
PDF 26 pages
Ch. 4: Going to work
PDF 22 pages
Ch. 5: Growing up healthy
PDF 16 pages
Ch. 6: Forming families
PDF 27 pages
Ch. 7: Exercising citizenship
PDF 24 pages
Ch. 8:Moving and communicating across borders
PDF 16 pages
Ch. 9: Youth policy: doing it and getting it right
PDF 44 pages
Bibliographical note, Endnotes and References
PDF 48 pages
Selected Indicators
Published September 16, 2006
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