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Trade, Employment, and Structural Transformation
Photo: istockphoto.comThere is a shared sense that globalization has a strong potential to contribute to growth and poverty alleviation. There are several examples of countries in which integration...
View ArticleBeyond tumult to transformation: Whither the MENA region
Countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are a cauldron of wrenching social change. For years pundits have attributed the region's tense social fabric to relatively high population growth...
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How to Seize the 85 million Jobs Bonanza
Remember the famous joke about an economist who believes so much in rational expectation theory that he would not pick up a $100 dollar bill off the sidewalk under the pretense that if it were actually...
View ArticleWho is Deprived? Who Feels Deprived? Labor Deprivation, Youth and Gender in...
Work is central to people’s lives and identity. For many, participating in the labor market is important beyond its obvious economic rewards as it also provides a sense of purpose and fulfillment....
View ArticleThe Employment Challenge in South Asia’s Conflict Zones
“People want to work, not fight,” said Nadir Ali, a male shopkeeper in Kabul, Afghanistan, in one of the discussion groups of the Moving out of Poverty: Rising from the Ashes of Conflict report. For...
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Jobs Center Stage: The WDR 2013
When my team and I started working on the World Development Report 2013, slightly more than a year ago, we were puzzled. We had been asked to write about jobs, and there was no doubt that they were a...
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Chart: In China, employment growth is led by the private sector
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View ArticleJobs, plateaus, dividends, skills and data
Jobs have been at the center of my life since I took up my own new job as World Bank Chief Economist on October 1. This began within hours of my joining the Bank, when I participated in the press...
View ArticleTesting information constraints on India's largest antipoverty program
Public knowledge about India's ambitious Employment Guarantee Scheme is low in one of India's poorest states, Bihar, where participation is also unusually low. Is the solution simply to tell people...
View ArticleNew Book: Right to Work? Assessing India's Employment Guarantee Scheme in Bihar
A new book by Puja Dutta, Rinku Murgai, Martin Ravallion, and Dominique van de Walle looks at how successful India’s 2005 National Rural Employment Guarantee Act has been in creating 100 days of wage...
View ArticleRise of informality in the tradable sector-- evidence from India
The slow growth of Indian manufacturing is a concern for many observers of the Indian economy, and India’s manufacturers have long performed below their potential. Although the country’s manufacturing...
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