ABSTRACT
Chapter Two focusses on the ways in which global youth development is positioned in policy frameworks, taking as its starting point the World Bank’s key policy report of 2006/7, Development and the Next Generation (WDR 2007). Here we explore in more detail the economic framing of young people discussed in Chapter One and how this shapes overarching approaches to supporting young people in terms of education, employment and the gendered, as well as other intersectional challenges they face. The chapter highlights how very little seems to have changed in the years since the report’s publication. We then explore the potential for the kinds of projects discussed in the rest of this volume to address some of the challenges faced by young people, looking at how such projects can both acknowledge and question the World Bank’s perspective, as well as the perspective of other key institutions that shape how young people tend to be perceived structurally.
