Includes bibliographical references and index. World development report 2007: development and the next generation (2006). Washington, DC: World Bank.

Part I: Why now, and how? -- Youth, poverty reduction, and growth -- Opportunities, capabilities, second chances: a framework for policy -- Part II: Transitions -- Learning for work and life -- Going to work -- Growing up healthy -- Forming families -- Exercising citizenship -- Part III: Across transitions and next steps -- Moving and communicating across borders -- Youth policy: doing it and getting it right

"This book discusses priorities for government action across five youth transitions that shape young people's human capital: learning, working, staying healthy, forming families, and exercising citizenship. Within these transitions, priorities for investment vary across countries. The report highlights three lenses that help assess priorities: expanding opportunities, enhancing capabilities, and providing second chances. Expanding opportunities focuses on increasing the quality (not just quantity) of education, smoothing the transition to work, and providing young people with a platform for civic engagement. Enhancing capabilities involves making young people aware of the consequences of their actions, specially consequences that will affect them much later in life; building their decision-making skills; and giving them the right incentives. Providing second chances calls for helping young people recover from missed opportunities through remedial education, retraining, treatment, and rehabilitation." - From the Book.