 | Job Market Improves in Many Emerging Economies Data compiled from 10 middle-income countries shows that labor markets are making a slow, but steady recovery.
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 | Employment Generation in Rural Africa An evaluation of Uganda's Youth Opportunities Program, which provided thousands of young people with relatively unconditional cash transfers to pay for vocational training, tools, and business start-up costs.
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 | Governance and Investment of Public Pension Assets: Practitioners' Perspectives A guidebook on practical ways to tackle the issues faced in governance and investment of public pension assets.
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 | Micro-Determinants of Informal Employment in The Middle East and North Africa Region This report quantifies patterns of labor informality (defined as the share of all employment with no access to social security) in a selected group of countries in the region.
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 | The Challenge of Job Creation under Demographic Transitions This two-week course offers a unique learning experience on how employment is being transformed in today's post-crisis and rapidly changing environment.
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 The Social Protection Unit, as part of the Human Development Network, supports the World Bank and client countries to assist individuals, households and communities to better manage the income and welfare risks that affect vulnerable groups. The unit is charged with developing concepts and strategies for Social Protection policy and with carrying out support functions to operational work, largely in the areas of Disability, Labor Markets, Pensions, Safety Nets and Social Funds. In all these areas, the unit provides operational support to the Regions and leadership for strategy development and results, knowledge management, training, and development of partnerships.
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