Photo: Dominic Chavez/World Bank Patricia Bernedo, Vismay Parikh, Elena Glinskaya How can micro and small enterprises best invest in people’s skills and create jobs? And how can we measure the impact of support to these enterprises? The World Bank’s Ghana Jobs and Skills project – with assistance from the Jobs Group’s Jobs Multi-Donor Umbrella Trust…
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Photo: Peter Kapuscinski / World Bank Authors: Tatiana Segal, Raian Divanbeigi, Anita Okemini, Yiruo Li Tajikistan is one of the least developed countries in Central Asia, with constraints to its development including fragility, conflict, and violence. Employment in Tajikistan is low, particularly for youth, women, and returning migrants. More than one in three young Tajiks…
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Photo: Women teachers and children at the Mother Teresa Daycare Center in The Gambia. Credit: Haddija Jawara Authors: Tanima Ahmed, Anne Hilger, Jason Weaver, Alieu Bah, Alpha Camara Caroline has always had a passion for working with children and noticed that her country, The Gambia, lacks quality childcare. She believed that limited childcare could…
DetailsPhoto: Curt Carnemark / World Bank Authors: Martin Abel and Eliana Carranza This blog was originally published by and is reprinted by permission from VoxDev. Imagine that you are an 18-year-old in Mexico, you have just graduated from high school and you plan to enter the labor market. Among the most important decisions is…
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Authors: Clemente Avila Parra , Aylin Isik Dikmelik and Auri Minaya A young woman in Mexico City stands in a long line, desperate for government assistance to get a job. Despite her college degree, Claudia has jumped from gig to gig since she lost her job during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in…
DetailsDialogue II: Closing the Agricultural Labor Gap: Decent Migrant Work or Automation? Rome, June 7. 14:00 – 15:30 HYBRID EVENT Many high-income countries face severe shortages of agricultural labor. In France alone, 57 percent of all vacancies in agriculture risk going unfilled this year. Raising wages and improving employment conditions has not been enough…
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Photo: K M Asas / World Bank Authors: Veronica Michel Gutierrez and Mike Dawe Bangladesh and the World Bank have partnered for more than a decade on Special Economic Zones (SEZs) to propel economic diversification and create more modern jobs. The most recent collaboration – the Private Investment and Digital Entrepreneurship (PRIDE) project – recognizes…
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Photo Credit: Anatoliy Rakhimbayev / World Bank Authors: Patricia Bernedo, Raian Divanbeigi and Teklu Tesfaye Uzbekistan’s farms and facilities processing dairy, meat, poultry, horse, camels, fish, honey and silk create vital and distinctive products – and are key drivers of jobs for the 80% of poor households who live in rural areas and largely depend…
DetailsLinks to all recordings of the Jobs Flagship Seminar Series Jobs Flagship Seminar with Oriana Bandiera and Ahmed Elsayed, on G²LM|LIC – Jobs of the World Project (February 2023) In this seminar, Oriana Bandiera (London School of Economics) and Ahmed Elsayed (American University in Cairo) presented the Jobs of the World project – a…
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Photo credit: Photo: Mohamed Azakir / World Bank Authors: Patricia Bernedo, Siddharth Hari and Efşan Nas Özen As the largest refugee-hosting country in the world, Türkiye has been addressing significant humanitarian challenges. However, the magnitude of the refugee and migrant influx poses substantial development challenges which are faced not only by the displaced populations,…
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