Cities are becoming increasingly fragmented materially, socially, and spatially. From broken
toilets and everyday things, to art and forms of writing, fragments are signatures of urban …

Behavioral economics has begun to transform the design of public policies, particularly
those related to health and economic development. Recent field experiments in the US and …

Equitable futures depend upon better employment outcomes for young women. We use a
skills ecosystems approach to explore how youth skills development programs can …

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have signalled a new era for the vocational
education agenda which had almost disappeared since the 1990s with the rise of universal …

Youth unemployment and working poverty are large and growing development challenges.
The barriers faced by young women and men in accessing sustainable livelihoods are …

The African “youth” population is growing at a fast and steady pace, attracting attention from
scholars, policymakers, and politicians. Yet, we know relatively little about this large and …

Young people constitute a large proportion of--and a particularly vulnerable segment of--
Africa's population.'Youth'constitutes a critical stage in the life course, marked by decreasing …

While urban geographies play a critical role in shaping youth development, existing
literature has focused primarily on the ways in which young people use, navigate and shape …

The high youth unemployment in Uganda has resulted in youth volunteering to gain
competitive advantages in the labour market. Volunteering has an important place in social …

How can development policies and programmes better address the multiple needs of
vulnerable youth populations? This case study of BRAC's Empowerment and Livelihoods for …