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Employability of the Poor

by Joachim Krapels, Marco Hafner, Ben Baruch, Christian Van Stolk

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While the number of people living in extreme poverty, defined as persons living on less than $1.25 per day, has declined over the last decades, estimates of global poverty remain high in the 21st century. In order to lift people out of poverty, employment is crucial. The World Bank asked RAND Europe to conduct a stocktaking exercise to map the diversity of employment interventions in South Asia and to review evidence of the impact of interventions. The stocktaking exercise aimed to map the most prominent employment interventions in a number of countries suggested by the World Bank: Afghanistan, Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. The second step involved an assessment of the impact of such interventions to understand if they are effective vehicles to increase employment. The evidence of the impact of interventions has been assessed through a meta-regression based on a scoping of academic literature.

Table of Contents

  • Chapter One

    Introduction

  • Part One

    Stocktaking

    • Chapter Two

      Taking stock of interventions in South Asia

    • Chapter Three

      India

    • Chapter Four

      Nepal

    • Chapter Five

      Sri Lanka

    • Chapter Six

      Afghanistan

    • Chapter Seven

      Pakistan

    • Chapter Eight

      Bangladesh

  • Part Two

    Meta-Regression

    • Chapter Nine

      Assessing the evidence of impact

    • Chapter Ten

      Dataset for the Meta Analysis

    • Chapter Eleven

      Empirical Methods

    • Chapter Twelve

      Results of the Meta-Regression

    • Chapter Thirteen

      Discussion

    • Chapter Fourteen

      Conclusion

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