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Lack of affordable childcare can prevent young mothers from participating in youth employment projects.
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How childcare responsibilities are impacting employees working in the private sector in Myanmar
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Women often face difficult decisions about how to balance work with childcare. Some mothers opt to stay out of the labor market due to their childcare responsibilities. For instance, a study...
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A new study by IFC in Myanmar reveals that lack of childcare support and low awareness among businesses is a key barrier to increasing women’s participation in Myanmar’s labor force. Addressing this...
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Women bear a disproportionate share of responsibilities of the world’s unpaid domestic and care work.
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Globally, the lack of childcare services is associated with lower rates of female labor force participation. Having children between 0-5 years old significantly lowers women’s opportunities to join...
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This session will discuss policy interventions to influence fathers’ involvement through behavioral approaches based on the idea that social norms and individual beliefs of the roles of fathers and mothers in childcare pull them toward certain frames and patterns of collective behavior with resultin
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An additional public preschool per 1,000 children raises the employment of mothers of eligible-aged children by 6.9 percentage points, an increase of about 13%.
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How can African countries prepare for their youth populations?
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Over the next decade, 1 billion people will enter the labor market.
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Governments must act now to foster a resilient job market in the mining sector and protect their communities' livelihoods.
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Youth programs can fail adolescent girls by neglecting gender-sensitive approaches to project design and implementation.
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Improving poultry farming outputs with science in Togo
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Archived Webinar Discussion (3)
Childcare Solutions: Creating family-friendly workplaces. Lessons from South and East Asia, and MENA
Access to good quality and affordable early childhood care and education (ECCE) is a win-win-win for families, particularly for working mothers to help them enter and stay in the workforce, as well...
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Understanding employment transitions is an important aspect of designing public policies that allow people to benefit from economic development.
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Which higher education institutions are moving the needle on employability to provide a competitive edge for their graduates? What are their unique stories?
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High fertility and rural-urban migration means that labor market entrants increasingly seek urban employment.
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Prioritizing youth employment and maximizing youth productivity in the COVID-19 recovery process will improve Asia and the Pacific’s future prospects for inclusive and sustainable growth, demographic transition and social stability.
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Bilateral labor agreements (BLAs) play an important role in facilitating temporary labor mobility across borders, especially for low-skilled workers, and promote mutually beneficial economic gains...
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The rise in unemployment during an economic crisis poses a significant concern to policy makers.
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