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Searching with Friends

It is a fact that Social Networks play a key role in job search efforts. This is even more the case in Developing countries, where over 50% of individuals in job search report to find a job through Social Networks. This thus points to a situation where complementary knowledge among job searchers is quite important…

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Young Adults and Labor Markets in Africa

Today, 1 in 5 new jobseekers have been born in Africa, by 2050 this ratio will have changed to 1 in 3. It is evident that by such a shift, societal and economic problems in the continent will worsen the longer jobseekers are not met with more job opportunities, i.e., that the employment demand is…

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Jobs of the World Project Launch

Check out the Data Portal of the project here. To see what the project is all about, register to the event here. The Jobs of the World Project is a publicly available resource built to enable researchers to analyse comparable labour market outcomes across countries and time using micro data. At the core of the…

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Should Farmers Farm more? Comparing Marginal Products within Malawian Households

It is well known within the field of development economics that farming is an economic activity confronted with risk. It is thought that farmers usually confront the risk of having their crop wasted by natural forces that vary in duration and frequency, by substituting farm- to non-farm labor. In this sense, economic literature would further…

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SME’s During COVID-19

The COVID-19 Pandemic has had a negative toll on the world and its economy in the past years. Although governments and countries have learned how to counteract the effects of the virus more effectively, the economic consequences of disease-induced lockdowns, among many other factors, have especially not been overcome in developing countries. To examine the…

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Summary IZA/FCDO Book Launch

“Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities” Poverty, informality and rural labour, skills training and behaviour, gender inequality, youth and child labour, and migration are some of the most pressing issues affecting labour markets in low-income countries. Which development policies will work and which strategies are likely to fail in these poorest countries? Based…

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IZA/FCDO Book Launch “Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities”

G2LM|LIC proudly announces the launch of the new book “Labour Markets in Low-Income Countries: Challenges and Opportunities” by David Lam and Ahmed Elsayed. It addresses some of the most important issues affecting labour markets in low-income countries. The book builds heavily on new research evidence that has been provided by the programme on Growth and…

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Women’s Well-Being during a Pandemic and Its Containment

Pandemics are confronted in a different context in developing countries and thus its containment has different consequences. Women may be especially vulnerable in these settings given gender norms, low availability of mental health services, and weaker state capacity. To examine how women fare in these contexts during the COVID-19 Pandemic, the researchers conduct a large…

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Migration and the Labour Market Impacts of COVID-19

Since COVID-19 is primarily transmitted via face-to-face contact, migration plays an outsized role in its global spread. Furthermore, as social distancing policies entail a restriction of migration, be it international or national, households’ whose income is dependent to some degree on labor migration remittances have seen their livelihoods considerably affected. With 272 million people living…

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Using Bank Savings Product Design for Empowering Women and Agricultural Development

Access to formal deposit accounts is still far from a reality for 1.7 billion adults worldwide, most of them living in developing countries. Therefore, savings by the poor have become a priority in the development agenda and savings mobilization strategies for the poor are widely seen as key initiatives for agricultural development, food security and…

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