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Entrepreneurship draws Southeast Asia’s youth
Entrepreneurship draws Southeast Asia’s youth
Jonathan De LucaResearch Awards2017“The top priority for youth in Myanmar and Vietnam isn’t a high salary,” says Jonathan de Luca, 2017 IDRC Research Award Recipient. “It’s adequate health, being able to spend time with family, and to develop and use skills.”
This finding suggests that policymakers and business leaders don’t understand the needs of young
women and men, he says. “Interviews with policymakers and business leaders show that they believe that providing better paying work is sufficient.”
De Luca’s research focused on youth livelihoods in medium-sized cities of the Greater Mekong sub-region. “Dawei in Myanmar and Quy Nhon in Vietnam are experiencing rapid economic development as a result of export-oriented industrialization and manufacturing,” he says. Despite the steady jobs this industrialization creates, he found that young people are much more interested in self-employment because of the freedom and autonomy it affords them.
De Luca confesses that “I really had no idea how everything would come together until a month into the analysis phase where I took a step back and thought “Ah-hah! This actually is telling a really interesting story!”
“I can’t forget that my research exists only because there were young people in Vietnam and Myanmar who wanted to talk to me about the issues that affect them and tell me about their aspirations and hopes for life and work in the future,” he says. “I not only owe it to them for helping me to complete my research, but I also owe it to them to have my work contribute to some change in this world.”
“So even though my year at IDRC is over, I’m going to take this research with me and try and help it to influence something in some way.”
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Research in ActionHealth Gender Science and TechnologyInnovations are bringing better health within reach
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StoryEconomics DevelopmentThe untold story: IDRC supported researchers transform economic policy in AfricaWhen Tony Muhumuza was appointed Uganda’s national economist for the United Nations Development Program, he was cognizant of the great responsibility that came with his new role.
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PerspectivesDevelopment Gender Economics Food and AgricultureA changing Asia, especially for women
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Research in ActionEconomicsInfluencing parliamentary debate on labour policy in UruguayThe IDRC-supported “Labour markets for inclusive growth” project, coordinated by the Centre for Distributive Labor and Social Studies (CEDLAS) at Universidad Nacional de La Plata in Argentina, is generating rigorous and policy-relevant evidence on how labour markets and social protection work in Latin America — and what that means for growth and inclusion.Date
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Research in ActionGender Development EconomicsMini soap operas foster financial education and inclusion of women in Peru
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Research in ActionEconomicsPremiere of "Forward Home:" The economic power of Caribbean overseas communities
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BooksEconomics Development GenderSeparated and Divorced Women in India: Economic Rights and EntitlementsPublication Date
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BooksEconomics Food and Agriculture DevelopmentMarkets and Rural Poverty: Upgrading in Value ChainsPublication Date
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Research in ActionEconomics GenderCASE STUDY: The Philippines — Progress relies on sound information in the Philippines
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