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  "title": "Infographic: Pandemic Impact on Youth – IMF F&D",
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  "summary": "A new ILO report suggests that the pandemic’s effects on young people have been systematic, deep and disproportionate.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Author: MELINDA WEIR; F&D Magazine, \"Uncertain Age\"; December 2020.\n- Based on an International Labour Organization (ILO) report and a survey by the ILO and partners of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth.\n- Survey scope: more than 12,000 18- to 29-year-olds from 112 countries."
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      "heading": "Key findings",
      "content": "- The pandemic’s effects on young people are described as “systematic, deep and disproportionate.”\n- Impact was particularly severe for young women and youth in lower-income countries.\n- High levels of anxiety and depression reported among respondents.\n- Many young people supported their communities through volunteering and giving despite challenges."
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      "heading": "Impact on education",
      "content": "- Education disruption: one in eight young people left without access to courses, teaching, or training."
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      "heading": "Impact on employment and earnings",
      "content": "- Employment loss: One in six respondents who were employed before the pandemic stopped working entirely.\n- Age group hit especially hard: 18- to 24-year-olds.\n- Reduced working hours even for those still employed.\n- Earnings: two out of five reported earning less."
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      "heading": "Mental health and civic response",
      "content": "- Mental health: high numbers of respondents reported anxiety and depression.\n- Civic engagement: a high proportion of young people turned the crisis into an opportunity for collective action via volunteering and giving."
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      "heading": "Policy recommendations (as highlighted in the report)",
      "content": "- Urgent, targeted, and smarter investment in “decent jobs” for young people.\n- Protect human rights.\n- Improve employment and training programs, including online learning.\n- Strengthen social protection and unemployment benefits.\n- Improve mental health support.\n\nSource: Infographic: Pandemic Impact on Youth – IMF F&D\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- تأمل معي - عصر عدم اليقين\n  - تأمل معي - عصر عدم اليقين (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - تأمل معي - عصر عدم اليقين (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Bajo la lupa: Tiempos de incertidumbre  ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Diciembre de 2020\n  - Bajo la lupa: Tiempos de incertidumbre  ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Diciembre de 2020 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Bajo la lupa: Tiempos de incertidumbre  ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Diciembre de 2020 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Pleins Feux\n  - Pleins Feux (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Pleins Feux (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Infographic: Pandemic Impact on Youth – IMF F&D\n  - Infographic: Pandemic Impact on Youth – IMF F&D (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Infographic: Pandemic Impact on Youth – IMF F&D (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- Представьте себе. Возраст неопределенности – Финансы и развитие – декабрь 2020 года\n  - Представьте себе. Возраст неопределенности – Финансы и развитие – декабрь 2020 года (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Представьте себе. Возраст неопределенности – Финансы и развитие – декабрь 2020 года (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n- 充满不确定性的时代 - 图表释义 - 金融与发展 - 国际货币基金组织季刊\n  - 充满不确定性的时代 - 图表释义 - 金融与发展 - 国际货币基金组织季刊 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - 充满不确定性的时代 - 图表释义 - 金融与发展 - 国际货币基金组织季刊 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/fandd/issues/2020/12/infographic-of-pandemic-impact-on-youth"
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    "Author: MELINDA WEIR; F&D Magazine, \"Uncertain Age\"; December 2020.",
    "Based on an International Labour Organization (ILO) report and a survey by the ILO and partners of the Global Initiative on Decent Jobs for Youth.",
    "Survey scope: more than 12,000 18- to 29-year-olds from 112 countries.",
    "The pandemic’s effects on young people are described as “systematic, deep and disproportionate.”",
    "Impact was particularly severe for young women and youth in lower-income countries.",
    "High levels of anxiety and depression reported among respondents.",
    "Many young people supported their communities through volunteering and giving despite challenges.",
    "Education disruption: one in eight young people left without access to courses, teaching, or training.",
    "Employment loss: One in six respondents who were employed before the pandemic stopped working entirely.",
    "Age group hit especially hard: 18- to 24-year-olds.",
    "Reduced working hours even for those still employed.",
    "Earnings: two out of five reported earning less.",
    "Mental health: high numbers of respondents reported anxiety and depression.",
    "Civic engagement: a high proportion of young people turned the crisis into an opportunity for collective action via volunteering and giving.",
    "Urgent, targeted, and smarter investment in “decent jobs” for young people.",
    "Protect human rights.",
    "Improve employment and training programs, including online learning.",
    "Strengthen social protection and unemployment benefits.",
    "Improve mental health support.",
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    "**Bajo la lupa: Tiempos de incertidumbre  ● Finanzas y Desarrollo ● Diciembre de 2020**",
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    "**Infographic: Pandemic Impact on Youth – IMF F&D**",
    "**Представьте себе. Возраст неопределенности – Финансы и развитие – декабрь 2020 года**",
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