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Highlighting the State of Indigenous Peoples in Poverty and Development
Blogging from the United Nations Millennium Development Goals Summit in New York City.As world leaders gathered this week at the UN for the MDG Summit, the World Bank called critical attention to the...
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Jumpstarting Jobs: Skills Start with Education
As the World Bank's Annual Meetings met to discuss global development this October, the issue of jobs was front and center. The new Open Forum 2010 allowed leading thinkers and engaged citizens from...
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Investing in Early Childhood - What can be done?
So much has been written recently about the individual, economic and social benefits of investing in early childhood development (ECD), that it is becoming a challenge to summarize these studies....
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Indigenous Peoples, Poverty and Development
Blogging from the World Bank's Indigenous Peoples Research Dissemination Workshop in Washington DC.As is well known, there are more 300 million indigenous peoples in the world. While they make up...
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How we can make the next decade one in which all children, everywhere, are in school and learning? The World Bank's Lead Economist for education, Halsey Rogers, joins the Harvard EdCast from Washington...
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Extreme Poverty is More than Just Living on $1.25 a Day
“I want my children to be able to go to school. I don't want them to suffer like me.” Little by little this dream disappears as a piece of sugar, as water that runs through your hands. The long lists...
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Yunus to youth: Create your own future
“What are you waiting for? Get out there and create your future”. This conveys the spirit of Mohammed Yunus’ lecture last week at the World Bank. His messages on social business and entrepreneurship...
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Los “ninis” de América Latina: ni estudian ni trabajan ni son comprendidos
La imagen popular de la juventud de América Latina que no estudia ni trabaja no es positiva. Por un lado, el término usado para etiquetarlos –“ninis”– los define en negativo. Proviene de la frase en...
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The “nini” youth of Latin America: Out of school, out of work, and misunderstood
The popular image of the out-of-school, out-of-work youth of Latin America is not generally a positive one. For one thing, the term used to label them – “ninis” – defines them in the negative. It...
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Second Chances: Giving Dhaka’s slum children an opportunity to go back to school
12-year old Rafiq, selling ‘chotpoti’, a popular snack in Bangladesh. Photo Credit: Mabruk Kabir/World Bank Deep in the winding alleys of a Dhaka slum, business was booming. Rafiq, an entrepreneurial...
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Quality education needed to boost women’s economic empowerment
Better educated women secure brighter futures for themselves and lift entire households out of poverty. While Hillary Clinton is cracking the glass ceiling, if not yet shattering it entirely, in the...
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A juventude “nem-nem” da América Latina: fora da escola, desempregada e...
A imagem popular da juventude latino-americana desempregada e fora da escola em geral não é positiva. Em primeiro lugar, o termo pelo qual é rotulada – “nem-nem” – define os jovens de forma negativa....
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