Research Catalog

Title

Development and the next generation.

Publication

Washington, DC : World Bank, [2006], ©2006.

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Additional Authors

• Jimenez, Emmanuel, 1952-
• World Bank.

Description

xvii, 317 pages : color illustrations; 27 cm.

Summary

"There has never been a better time to invest in young people in developing countries. Those who are 12-24 years of age number 1.3 billion and make up the largest youth cohort in history. They are, on average, more educated and healthier than generations before them. They represent a potentially stronger base on which to build in a world that is increasingly demanding more than basic skills. Today's young people are the next generation of workers, entrepreneurs, parents, active citizens, and leaders who have relatively fewer dependents because of lower birth rates. Countries need to seize this window of opportunity to invest in the future before the aging process closes it." "World Development Report 2007: Development and the Next Generation discusses priorities for government action across five youth transitions that shape young people's human capital: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within these transitions, priorities for investment vary across countries. The Report highlights three lenses that help assess priorities: expanding opportunities, enhancing capabilities, and providing second chances. Expanding opportunities focuses on increasing the quality (not just quantity) of education, smoothing the transition to work, and providing young people with a platform for civic engagement. Enhancing capabilities involves making young people aware of the consequences of their actions, especially consequences that will affect them much later in life; building their decision-making skills; and giving them the right incentives. Providing second chances calls for helping young people recover from missed opportunities through remedial education, retraining, treatment, and rehabilitation. Book jacket."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

World development report, 0163-5085 ; 2007

Uniform Title

World development report ; 2007.

Subject

• Youth in development > Developing countries
• Youth > Developing countries > Social conditions
• Youth > Developing countries > Economic conditions
• Youth > Health and hygiene > Developing countries
• Youth > Government policy > Developing countries
• Youth > Services for > Developing countries
• Jeugd
• Ontwikkelingspolitiek
• Ontwikkelingslanden

Note

• "This report has been prepared by a core team led by Emmanuel Y. Jimenez and comprising Jean Fares [and others]"--P. xiii.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-270) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available on the World Wide Web.

Contents

Invest in young people-now -- Investments during youth's five life transitions -- Policies should focus not only on youth's opportunities but also their capabilities and second chances -- Policies to broaden opportunities -- Policies that enhance capabilities: Youth as decision makers -- Policies to offer second chances -- Moving forward -- Part I. Why now, and how? -- 1. Youth, poverty reduction, and growth -- Young people are critical to further progress with poverty reduction and growth -- How the challenges confronting young people have changed -- Do numbers matter? How demographic changes affect opportunities for youth -- How prepared are youth for today's challenges? A glass half empty -- What should policy makers focus on? The five transitions -- Spotlight: Differing demographics -- 2. Opportunities, capabilities, second chances: A framework for policy -- Broadening opportunities -- Developing the capabilities of young people as decision-making agents -- Offering second chances -- Spotlight: A gender filter on the youth lens -- Part II. Transitions -- 3. Learning for work and life -- Educational preparation of youth for work and life is low -- A solid foundation: Improving the readiness for postprimary education -- Enhancing postprimary education opportunities -- Better education choices by young people -- Offering second chances -- Spotlight: Vietnamese youth: Managing prosperity -- 4. Going to work -- Youth challenges in the labor market -- What makes youth vulnerable in the labor market? -- Broadening labor market opportunities -- Choosing to work and developing the skills to do so -- Providing a springboard to reintegrate the most vulnerable -- Spotlight: Do baby booms lead to employment busts? Not in OECD countries -- 5. Growing up healthy -- Promoting the health of young people stimulates growth and reduces poverty and health care expenditures -- Public intervention is needed to promote youth health -- Strengthening young people's capability to practice healthy behavior -- Enhancing opportunities to make healthy choices -- What if prevention fails? Helping young people deal with the adverse consequences of poor health behavior or misfortune -- Spotlight: Addressing disparities among Brazil's youth -- 6. Forming families -- Preparing for family formation is good for growth and poverty reduction -- Preparation for family formation is poor -- Providing opportunities for youth to prepare for parenthood -- Strengthening young people's decision-making capabilities to prepare for parenthood -- Supporting those who become mothers at an early age -- 7. Exercising citizenship -- Youth participation: Rising, declining, or both? -- What youth citizenship means for adult citizenship and development -- Opportunities for political participation and active citizenship -- Acquiring an identity and a sense of belonging -- Young people need legally recognized second chances -- Spotlight: Rebuilding lives and institutions in Sierra Leone -- Part III. Across transitions and next steps -- 8. Moving and communicating across borders -- Youth and international migration -- Youth and the global flow of information and ideas -- Spotlight: What donors can do -- 9. Youth policy: Doing it and getting it right -- Youth policy priorities vary by country context -- Youth policy often fails young people -- Getting it right-by developing a coherent framework and integrating it with national policy -- Getting it right-by listening to young people -- Getting it right-through monitoring and evaluation -- Spotlight: It's up to you(th)-taking action for development -- Selected indicators -- Technical notes -- Selected world development indicators -- Data sources and methodology -- Classification of economies and summary measures -- Terminology and country coverage -- Technical notes.

ISBN

• 082136541X (ISBN-10 : pbk.)
• 9780821365410 (ISBN-10 : pbk.)
• 0821365495 (ISBN-10 : hdbk.)
• 9780821365496 (ISBN-10 : hdbk.)
• 0821365428 (eISBN-10 : hdbk.)
• 9780821365427 (eISBN-10 : hdbk.)
• 0821365509 (eISBN-10 : hdbk.)
• 9780821365502 (eISBN-10 : hdbk.)

OCLC

• ocm71361179
• SCSB-5384001

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries