How do these youth transitions impact poverty reduction in developing countries?
The principle of developing human capital is well-established in the literature as key to poverty reduction. We know that building country infrastructure is not enough, that countries need to help their citizens evolve new skills. Our hope is that countries will enter into policies around these five youth transitions that will enable young people to make long-term contributions to the countries’ well-being. In some countries, this will be hard to do because things have always been one way. But the world labor market is changing rapidly. Countries know that they have to adapt.
