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   Shifting the development debate to jobs, productivity change and structural transformation

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 March 2013

   Only productivity change, structural transformation and innovation can secure development in the long-run. A low-income country (LIC) that doesn’t increase the level of productivity in its economy will eventually limit its own growth and income-generating potential, and find it difficult to navigate health challenges and environmental constraints. It may well fail to make the transition from a LIC to a middle income country (MIC).

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   From supply and demand to power and data: the case for a more restrained handling of job creation programs in conflict-affected situations

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 11 March 2013

   'The case of job creation is symptomatic of a broader issue: that, perhaps because of the absence of high quality impact data, largely unjustified assumptions shape policy and programming choices in conflict-affected situations.'

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   Growth, employment and poverty in Africa: tales of lions and cheetahs

   Publication - Research reports and studies - 26 February 2013

   Pedro Martins

   This paper compares the experiences of four fast-growing African countries—Ethiopia, Ghana, Mozambique and Tanzania—in order to shed some light on the different growth paths being pursued, as well as on the policy choices that might explain the gaps in key development outcomes.

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   Unearthing productive employment: a diagnostic tool for sub-Saharan Africa

   Publication - Discussion papers - 26 February 2013

   Pedro Martins

   This Working Paper develops a practical and useful methodology to identify key bottlenecks and opportunities to achieving full and productive employment for all. The methodology assesses where progress has been achieved and where to target efforts to enable a more socially inclusive and sustainable growth path.

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   The politics of social protection: why are public works programmes so popular with governments and donors?

   Publication - Discussion papers - 5 September 2012

   Anna McCord

   This Background Note makes an initial exploration of the political economy of adopting public works programmes to promote social protection and employment in low-income countries and fragile states. It examines the reasons for the popularity of public works programmes, reviews the evidence base and draws implications for both policy choice and programme design.

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6. Rethinking Rio +20: why economists should take the Earth Summit seriously

   Opinion - Articles and blogs - 18 June 2012

   Back at the first Rio Earth Summit in 1992, the civil society organisations in attendance counted an unusual group among their number. Amid the assorted staffers and activists from environmental and development NGOs, there was a handful of campaigners who had a very different relationship with the Earth: representatives of an astronauts' organisation. Their reason for being there? Having seen the planet from space, they'd learned to view it from a different angle.

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   Youth entrepreneur - bicycle repair station, India.

   Youth entrpreneur - bicycle repair station, India.
   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: anaxila
   Source: Flickr
   

   Maximising the impact of youth entrepreneurship support in different contexts

   Projects - April 2012 to March 2013

   The global youth population is the largest in history. Of the world’s 3 billion people estimated to be under the age of 25, approximately 1.3 billion young people are between the ages of 15 and 24, making up a quarter of the world’s working population, but representing half of the world’s unemployed. Just under half live on less than $2 a day, as estimated by the United Nations.

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8. Innovation – Development finance institutions and job creation

   Projects - April 2012 to March 2013

   This project examines the linkages between development finance institutions (DFIs) and job creation and productivity change.
   
   Ensuring high and sustained economic growth rates in low income countries, combined with high levels of social development, is unlikely to be achieved without productivity changes based on widespread economic diversification and structural transformation.
   

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   Cusco, Peru

   License: Creative Commons
   Credit: Ilkerender
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   ERD 2013: European Report on Development

   Projects - March 2012 to June 2013

   The European Report on Development (ERD) 2013 aims to provide an independent European contribution to the emerging debate on a possible post-2015 consensus on international development. In doing so, it will seek to answer questions such as:

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10. Lessons from Technical and Vocational Education and Training (TVET) reforms in Africa and Asia

    Publication - Articles and blogs - 30 September 2011

    Christian Kingombe

    The paper makes suggestions for how to address future challenges and opportunities to ensure that the good performance of TVET reforms elsewhere contribute to the promotion of sustainable growth through private sector development in Sierra Leone.

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