Can Jobs Programs Build Peace?. (30th September 2020)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Can Jobs Programs Build Peace?. (30th September 2020)
- Main Title:
- Can Jobs Programs Build Peace?
- Authors:
- Brück, Tilman
Ferguson, Neil T N
Izzi, Valeria
Stojetz, Wolfgang - Abstract:
- Abstract: In the last decade, well over $10 billion has been spent on employment programs designed to contribute to peace and stability. Despite the outlay, whether these programs perform, and how they do so, remain open questions. This study conducts three reviews to derive the status quo of knowledge. First, it draws on academic literature on the microfoundations of instability to distill testable theories of how employment programs could affect stability at the micro level. Second, it analyses academic and grey literature that directly evaluates the impacts of employment programs on peace-related outcomes. Third, it conducts a systematic review of program-based learning from over 400 interventions. This study finds good theoretical reasons to believe that employment programs could contribute to peace. However, only very limited evidence exists on overall impacts on peace or on the pathways underlying the theories of change. At the program level, the review finds strong evidence that contributions to peace and stability are often simply assumed to have occurred. This provides a major challenge for the justification of continued spending on jobs for peace programs. Instead, systematic and rigorous learning on the impacts of jobs for peace programs needs to be scaled up urgently.
- Is Part Of:
- World Bank research observer. Volume 36:Number 2(2021)
- Journal:
- World Bank research observer
- Issue:
- Volume 36:Number 2(2021)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 36, Issue 2 (2021)
- Year:
- 2021
- Volume:
- 36
- Issue:
- 2
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2021-0036-0002-0000
- Page Start:
- 234
- Page End:
- 259
- Publication Date:
- 2020-09-30
- Subjects:
- Employment interventions -- peace building -- jobs -- conflict -- jobs for peace
Economic development -- Periodicals
Developing countries -- Economic conditions -- Periodicals
Economic development
Economic history
Developing countries
Periodicals
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http://wbro.oxfordjournals.org/ ↗
http://www.jstor.org/journals/02573032.html ↗
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http://www.worldbank.org/research/journals/wbromast.htm ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1093/wbro/lkaa004 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0257-3032
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