Productive #socialsafetynets in Africa can make a real difference in tackling the intertwined challenges of poverty, vulnerability to climate change and fragility, and poor opportunities for youth. Here's how to boost their transformative impact 👇 https://t.co/LblZrHl4Qw
🚨 Excited to share my job market paper!
“Cash transfers and women’s labour supply: evidence from the world’s largest programme” (https://t.co/o9m1txSOzH)
It has been awarded the EEA/UniCredit Foundation’s Best JMP Award.
A thread summarising my findings 👇(1/13)
Certainement un peu moins pauvre et moins sexy qu’auparavant, “Berlin la rebelle a peut-être atteint l’âge de raison”. Beau portrait d’une ville en transition par @CecileBoutelet https://t.co/SkRn9ATjho
In the #Sahel, adaptive #SocialProtection has proven to have strong positive impacts on household well-being, society, and the economy.
Learn more: https://t.co/xDJyLcXZW5
Ajay on how @WorldBank aims to boost economic opportunities for women by 2030 : include 250M women in social benefit programs, provide broadband connectivity to 300M women, and connect 80M women to financial services.
Watch #WBGMeetings event replay: https://t.co/NXeWOzyPo9
Benin’s flagship youth employment program Azôli is boosting employment opportunities for young women - here’s how: https://t.co/4WFcqClXDo #AccelerateEquality@WBG_Gender@WBG_SPLabor
Growth in the middle-income countries of Europe and Central Asia has slowed by almost 1.5 percentage points since the 2000s. Is this pace of growth sufficient to achieve high-income status? Read our update: https://t.co/TTa7HJnzgm
#AfricasPulse | Vous êtes passionné par le développement économique du continent et croyez au pouvoir de l’éducation pour transformer des vies ? Alors, cet événement est pour vous !
RDV en direct aujourd’hui depuis l’Université de Pretoria : https://t.co/aapad2c3pg
Avec presque 90% d’enfants en Afrique subsaharienne incapables de lire un texte simple à l’âge de 10 ans, la priorité d’aujourd’hui est d’améliorer les systèmes éducatifs pour assurer un meilleur avenir économique demain https://t.co/q2zVozQ1CP
Heureux de visiter la zone industrielle Glo-Djigbé du Bénin (#GDIZ) pour discuter avec les bénéficiaires du programme innovant d'emploi des jeunes #Azoli de @BeninANPE, soutenu par la @BM_Afrique, qui offre une formation professionnelle et un placement aux jeunes vulnérables
Glad to visit Benin’s Glo-Djigbé Industrial Zone (#GDIZ) to discuss with beneficiaries of @BeninANPE’s innovative #Azoli youth employment program, supported by @WorldBankAfrica, which provides skills training and job placement for vulnerable youth. #IDAworks
In it together: here’s how @WFP_WAfrica, @UNICEF and @WorldBankAfrica are teaming up in support of government-led adaptive social protection systems in the Sahel #InvestInPeople
https://t.co/rXcCe73BeH
This week I joined the launch of #TheGambia Resilience Inclusion Skills & Equity (RISE) project supported by @WorldBankAfrica: a joint-up effort to boost opportunities for youth with innovations in foundational learning and job relevant technical skills for employability… 1/3
…while continuing the 🇬🇲 success story of building the Nafa productive social safety net system to support the poor in developing sustainable livelihoods, incl with a rapid roll-out of its social registry of poor households towards nationwide coverage https://t.co/RPWGigP7CE 2/3