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Foreword | |
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Acknowledgments | |
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Methodological Note | |
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Abbreviations and Data Notes | |
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Overview | |
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Invest in young people-now | |
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Investments during youth's five life transitions | |
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Policies should focus not only on youth's opportunities but also their capabilities and second chances | |
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Policies to broaden opportunities | |
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Policies that enhance capabilities: Youth as decision makers | |
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Policies to offer second chances | |
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Moving forward | |
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Why now, and how? | |
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Youth, poverty reduction, and growth | |
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Young people are critical to further progress with poverty reduction and growth | |
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How the challenges confronting young people have changed | |
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Do numbers matter? How demographic changes affect opportunities for youth | |
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How prepared are youth for today's challenges? A glass half empty | |
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What should policy makers focus on? The five transitions | |
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Spotlight: Differing demographics | |
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Opportunities, capabilities, second chances: A framework for policy | |
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Broadening opportunities | |
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Developing the capabilities of young people as decision-making agents | |
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Offering second chances | |
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Spotlight: A gender filter on the youth lens | |
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Transitions | |
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Learning for work and life | |
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Educational preparation of youth for work and life is low | |
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A solid foundation: Improving the readiness for postprimary education | |
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Enhancing postprimary education opportunities | |
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Better education choices by young people | |
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Offering second chances | |
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Spotlight: Vietnamese youth: Managing prosperity | |
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Going to work | |
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Youth challenges in the labor market | |
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What makes youth vulnerable in the labor market? | |
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Broadening labor market opportunities | |
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Choosing to work and developing the skills to do so | |
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Providing a springboard to reintegrate the most vulnerable | |
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Spotlight: Do baby booms lead to employment busts? Not in OECD countries | |
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Growing up healthy | |
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Promoting the health of young people stimulates growth and reduces poverty and health care expenditures | |
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Public intervention is needed to promote youth health | |
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Strengthening young people's capability to practice healthy behavior | |
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Enhancing opportunities to make healthy choices | |
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What if prevention fails? Helping young people deal with the adverse consequences of poor health behavior or misfortune | |
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Spotlight: Addressing disparities among Brazil's youth | |
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Forming families | |
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Preparing for family formation is good for growth and poverty reduction | |
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Preparation for family formation is poor | |
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Providing opportunities for youth to prepare for parenthood | |
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Strengthening young people's decision-making capabilities to prepare for parenthood | |
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Supporting those who become mothers at an early age | |
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Exercising citizenship | |
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Youth participation: Rising, declining, or both? | |
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What youth citizenship means for adult citizenship and development | |
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Opportunities for political participation and active citizenship | |
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Acquiring an identity and a sense of belonging | |
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Young people need legally recognized second chances | |
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Spotlight: Rebuilding lives and institutions in Sierra Leone | |
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Across transitions and next steps | |
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Moving and communicating across borders | |
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Youth and international migration | |
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Youth and the global flow of information and ideas | |
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Spotlight: What donors can do | |
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Youth policy: Doing it and getting it right | |
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Youth policy priorities vary by country context | |
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Youth policy often fails young people | |
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Getting it right-by developing a coherent framework and integrating it with national policy | |
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Getting it right-by listening to young people | |
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Getting it right-through monitoring and evaluation | |
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Spotlight: It's up to you(th)-taking action for development | |
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Bibliographical note | |
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Endnotes | |
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References | |
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Selected indicators | |
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Technical notes | |
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Selected world development indicators | |
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Data sources and methodology | |
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Classification of economies and summary measures | |
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Terminology and country coverage | |
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Technical notes | |
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Index | |