The World Bank's children and youth development portfolio grew five-fold over the past decade, from $949 million in fiscal year 2000 (FY00), defined as from July 1st 1999 to June 30th 2000, to over $4.8...
This note discusses the under-explored phenomenon of the relationship among conflict and violence, psycho-social wellbeing and youth employment and the implications for policy and intervention. The persistence...
This note argues that investing in Children and Youth (C&Y) is smart economics. Countries that produce a skilled, healthy, and productive workforce are better positioned in the global economy to achieve...
This note provides a summary of the World Bank projects targeting youth during Fiscal Years 1995-2007 (FY95-07). The purpose is to identify trends in lending and grants in terms of loan amounts, the number...
This note presents the evidence on the role that simple early childhood stimulation inputs can play when they accompany nutrition inputs, and how the joint intervention is crucial to the development of...