Investing in young people is a prudent choice.

By investing in the youth of today, we can build a better tomorrow.

Thanks to several development forums, the case for investing in young people has been made clearer, and today youth has come to occupy the centre stage of international development.

There is a strong link between investing in young people and fulfilment of the Millennium Development Goals.

Participation by young people at all levels of society, stronger partnerships aimed at increasing investment in young people and holistic and integrated youth policies are just a few of the tools identified in this draft resolution that can enable us to move forward and create a better world for the younger generation.

To help meet its commitment to youth employment, the European Union is investing more in human capital through better education and skills, including through the European Youth Pact for Young People adopted in February 2005.

Taking advantage of the improved investment climate in the country, young people are initiating small scale business ventures in numbers never seen in the history of our region.

Governments cannot substitute for parents or for communities, but they can encourage young people and their families to invest in themselves.

We need an immediate contingency plan invest to finance job training, improve educational opportunities, and, crucially, create incentives for employers to hire young people.

The situation of these vulnerable young people must be improved as a critical matter of human resource investment for development.

Greater investment in capacity building for youth would be necessary to ensure that they have the skills, knowledge and ability to be seen, heard, understood and take leadership roles.

Additionally, young people highlight the need to invest in entrepreneurial activities for rural youth, e.g., by creating a fund for young rural entrepreneurs.

Putting Youth First

But, while structural reforms could undoubtedly lead over time to faster productivity growth, this is unlikely to happen in an environment in which credit is severely constrained, investment is plummeting, and many skilled young people emigrate.

SCC formed as a merger of the Southwest Youth Corps and the Youth Corps of Southern Arizona.

Additionally, young people are concerned about the status of youth in prisons.

Second, investment in real estate development accounts for nearly one quarter of the total.

Rather than securing investment for productive sectors of the economy, the financial industry has become adept at securing investment in itself.

Investing in development

Young people state that partnerships should be fostered between organizations working in conflict areas and youth groups to ensure that conflict affected youth, including refugees and internally displaced young people, are supported in the peacebuilding and conflict resolution process.

The investment policy reviews and investment guides produced by UNCTAD had been valuable in improving the investment policy environment in those countries.

The Mexican Youth Institute's various programmes seek to fully integrate young people into public life.

One vital way to create communities that support and nurture young people is to include young people in the decision making process.

In particular, the Thai Exim Bank and the Board of Investment have been providing facilities (e.g. information, outward investment missions) to help Thai firms venture abroad.

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The Ministry of Youth and Sports has a department devoted solely to youth development.

During the meeting, two youth participants presented the work of the youth peer education electronic resource (Y PEER) and stressed the important role of young people and peer education in the region.

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Youth in the global economy

Youth in civil society

One of the outcomes of the Malaysian Youth Development Action Plan is the creation of the Malaysian Institute for Research in Youth Development.

Young people's needs must be taken into account, and young people must be able to lead the development of their societies.

Nehru Yuva Kendras, national youth clubs, have spearheaded the youth movement in the country.

In Sri Lanka the Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports has taken several steps to promote youth activities.

Segment 3 Young people and their well being (chaired by H.E. Ms. Azalina Othman Said, Minister of Youth and Sports of Malaysia)

62 126. Policies and programmes involving youth youth in the global economy promoting youth participation in social and economic development

Stronger safety net programs might reduce the need for precautionary savings in the future, but such reforms cannot be accomplished overnight.

Young people widely agree that youth developed, youth friendly educational programmes and policies are effective in convincing young people of the harm caused by substances.

Young people reiterate the point to Governments and the public at large that the great majority of young people are not engaged in crime.

Among the key priorities of this policy are the participation of youth in decision making, non formal education and youth employment.

To involve young people in national decision making bodies and support youth efforts to attain greater autonomy