Your Responses to the WDR Questions
WDR 2007: Development and the Next Generation

Question 6. Anything else the Bank should ask? In the previous five weeks, you commented on specific transitions young people go through. Now, stop and reflect: Are there other major issues the Bank didn't ask about or that require more attention? To get started, think about these:

• Decision Making: Do you have the decisive "say" in big decisions in your life, such as schooling, making friends, job choice, when and whom to marry, having children? If you don't, who does? If you had more voice, would it lead to a better life for yourself and your family?

• Impact on your life: Who determines key decisions in your life: (a) global factors (such as wars or natural disasters); (b) national factors (government); (c) local factors (friends, community norms of behavior, teachers, religious values or leaders, etc.); (d) family factors?

• Global youth culture: Young people are increasingly influenced by the same music and movie trends, see ads for the same products and find similar goods for sale in local shops. Are you happy to have more options, or frustrated that many of these products are unaffordable? The Internet gives people access to more information than before. Is the Internet useful for you? What other communications tools (telephone, letter, mobile phone) do you regularly use?

• Migration: Would you like to visit or move to other countries, if possible? If you have migrated, do you intend to stay for good? Do you have information about possibilities to live and work abroad? Does your community or country have programs or policies to help people find out about life and work overseas? Do you have a passport? Would you know how to get one, would it be expensive or time-consuming? Do you have a family member living abroad? How often do you communicate? Has your role in the family been changed by this person's departure?

Responses to other questions:

• Question 1: The transition from school
• Question 2: The transition to a healthful lifestyle
• Question 3: The transition to work
• Question 4: The transition to family formation
• Question 5: The transition to citizenship

Responses to Question 6

Oluwande, 25, Nigeria: Decision Making: sometimes we do [have the decisive "say"] but in most cases we dont, its what we see but what were people see and how its had been done, fine you make decision about education. friends, wife but sometime when we listen its just flow. Impact on your life: Who determines key decisions in your life: (a) global factors (such as wars or natural disasters); (b) national factors (government); (c) local factors (friends, community norms of behavior, teachers, religious values or leaders, etc.); (d) family factors? "a, c and d but the most is the family,we all have root and we learn first hand from youth and from religious" Global youth culture: could but its kind of reform that assistant a lot, the mobile phone most popular with youth to call friends and the internet before to send mails but with the introduction of moblie line, sms is it. Migration: with the hazzad of where we leave who will not want to seek from others,where there is less greed from the people in power,common problem of some of us that lives in africa.Sure i have a passport, not that expensive from 13 thousand naira even without a family, its a know mans land and brings up a family in such environment,the better is it. i Have family members living aboard that dont care whether will survive here or not,how do i know whats is happening to them, for sometimes they come live like a big man and left to do the hard job again.sure with strong determination that, come what may i wande will survive aginst all odds. Waiting around the corner to proof myself when the time is right.

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