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Jobs and livelihoods programming for economic and social stability in fragile places: Evidence from Tunisia and Somalia

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  • Tatiana Orozco Garcia
  • Neil T. N. Ferguson

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An increasing proportion of the world's poor live in fragile states, and efforts to build economic and social stability increasingly focus on those settings. Fragility harms the political and economic ecosystem, as well as individual endowments. Interventions that only focus on overcoming individual constraints might be insufficient. Support for entrepreneurs to overcome skills or credit constraints might have limited impacts if local economies cannot sustain the businesses they start, limiting impact on economic and social stability.

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  • Tatiana Orozco Garcia & Neil T. N. Ferguson, 2025. "Jobs and livelihoods programming for economic and social stability in fragile places: Evidence from Tunisia and Somalia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-93, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2025-93
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