youth

YOUTH

Webinar
May 3, 2019
WEBINAR: Determinants of rural youth migration throughout the developing world
Alan de Brauw (IFPRI) discusses determinants of internal migration by youth within five countries: Bangladesh, Indonesia, Nigeria, Pakistan, and Tanzania.
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Blog
January 8, 2019
Video: Meaningful employment for young people: We’re changing course
New CGIAR video features our previous Director Dr. Karen Brooks (retired in 2018) talking about the importance of agriculture for youth employment in developing countries. "We are talking about five hundred million young people in Africa south of the Sahara, in South Asia, in Central Asia who are moving into the labor force"
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Blog
April 18, 2018
Youth migration and labor constraints in African agrarian households
The new paper investigates how youth migration in Ethiopia and Malawi affects household labor, hired labor demand, and income, and whether these effects vary by migrant sex and destination.
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Blog
January 26, 2018
New paper explores the effect of land access on youth employment and migration decisions in rural Ethiopia
How does the amount of land that youth expect to inherit affect their migration and employment decisions? The new AJAE article by Kosec et al. explores this question in the context of rural Ethiopia.
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