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Record Nr.

UNINA9910777892703321

Titolo

Development and the next generation / / edited by Gudrun Kochendorfer-Lucius and Boris Pleskovic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Bonn, Germany] : , : InWEnt/Internationale Weiterbildung und Entwicklung gGmbH

Washington, D.C. : , : World Bank, , [2007]

copyright 2007

ISBN

1-281-11318-2

9786611113186

0-8213-6834-6

Descrizione fisica

vii, 165 pages : illustrations ; ; 26 cm

Collana

Berlin Workshop series, , 1813-9442 ; ; 2007

Altri autori (Persone)

Kochendörfer-LuciusGudrun

PleskovicBoris

Disciplina

305.235/5

Soggetti

Youth development

Education

Youth - History - 21st century

Youth in development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Presents a selection of papers from meetings held September 12-13, 2005 at the eighth annual Berlin Workshop"--P. 1.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; About This Book; Introduction; Welcome Address; Opening Address; Keynote Address; Part I: Youthful Transitions in a Changing World-Demographic and Other Socioeconomic Challenges; Economics of Youth Demography in Developing Countries; New Ways of Capturing the Demographic and Education Dynamics of the Global Youth Cohort; Part II: The Transition from Schooling Schooling; Schooling and Education Spending over the Life Course; Schooling: An African Perspective; Education and the Next Generation: Implications from Some Case Studies; Part III: The Transition to Work

The "Youth Bulge" in Developing Economies: Can This Be an Advantage in the Labor Market?Part IV: Migration and the Youth; Migration and the Youth: Immigrants and the Children of Immigrants; Part V: Forming Families; Forming Families; Delayed Household Formation as a



Development Issue; Part VI: Becoming Citizens; Is Religion an Obstacle to Development in the Middle East?; Transitions within a Transition: Youth in a Changing Political World; Some Notes on Beliefs and Development; Appendixes; Appendix 1: Program; Appendix 2: Participants

Sommario/riassunto

The Berlin Workshop Series 2007 presents selected papers from meetings held September 6??8, 2004, at the 7th Annual Forum co-hosted by InWEnt and the World Bank in preparation for the Bank's World Development Report. This volume presents papers from the sessions on Equity and Development, covering issues relating to the role of governments in the promotion of equity, equity-enhancing social transformations, building efficient welfare states, reducing global inequalities, and integration and inequality in the new Europe.