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    A push for youth policy

    Government officials, U.N. representatives, experts, practitioners and young people gathered last week in Azerbaijan to discuss national and global youth policies. Discover the main takeaways from the conference in this guest column by Nicole Goldin, director of the CSIS Youth, Prosperity and Security Initiative.

    By Nicole Goldin // 12 November 2014

    Last week I was among the 700 participants from 160 countries gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan with for the First Global Forum on Youth Policies. Government officials, U.N. representatives, experts, practitioners and young people deliberated policy matters of the world’s youth — a demographic that constitutes a quarter of the global population and represents the largest generation in human history.

    The forum, a first of its kind, was co-convened by several parties including the Office of the U.N. Envoy on Youth, UNESCO, UNDP and the Council of Europe to deliberate national and global youth policy: why they matter, what elements they should contain and issues they should address, how they should be implemented.

    Why? It is (or should be) a no-brainer. More than 85 percent of our young people live in developing countries, emerging economies and fragile states. Without question, their fate is highly consequential to the landscape and trajectory of international economics, politics and security. At a time when inequality within and between nations is untenable, Magdy Martínez-Solimán, U.N. assistant secretary-general and former Spanish deputy minister for youth, lauded the ability of youth policies to promote inclusion.

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      Nicole Goldin is head of equitable development at UNU-Centre for Policy Research and nonresident senior fellow of the Atlantic Council. She leads research on development cooperation and effectiveness, inequality, and inclusive growth. Among prior roles, she was lead economist at the World Bank, senior adviser at the U.S. State Department and USAID. She holds a Ph.D. in economics.

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