Anyone preparing to apply for the 2019 YPP
World Bank YPP 2019
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Optimize your chances:
- right skin color, the darker the better
- right gender: at least woman, trans better
- right nationality: small and poor underrepresented African state. You can buy a passport thereThen you are good. No need for skills, experience or diploma
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Optimize your chances:
- right skin color, the darker the better
- right gender: at least woman, trans better
- right nationality: small and poor underrepresented African state. You can buy a passport there
Then you are good. No need for skills, experience or diplomaThis sounds true. You don't really need to be black, some whites in african (syria, Lebanon, Egypt) would be enough too.
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Optimize your chances:
- right skin color, the darker the better
- right gender: at least woman, trans better
- right nationality: small and poor underrepresented African state. You can buy a passport there
Then you are good. No need for skills, experience or diplomaLol, you sound a bit down from prior rejection or something. No need to feel so. I got many rejections from them but eventually, I got hired!
The people hired in the YPP are PhD holders, mostly from western schools, and I would argue that people attending schools in Africa are marginalized!
So, your argument of no need for skills, experience or diploma is weak. Unless what you meant is that dark-skinned people or women with degrees from top or good western schools do not have the skills or experience because of what they look like, their gender or where they come from. I'll do my best to believe this isn't what you're saying because that would be pathetic.
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Hi guys! Does anyone know the website http://www.openigo.com/worldbankypp ? It is really interesting.... Did somebody buy their book about the world bank ypp?
Hi there! Thank you for the info. The website is full of WB YPP information... Very useful indeed... but I haven't bought their book... so I can't tell... sorry... If I buy it I'll write a review here
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they have changed the experience required to 3 years. It used to be two years. I sense a major shift in their approach
"At least three years of relevant professional experience related to development or continued academic study at the doctoral level" ------> phd can satisfy the requirement?
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The newly hired YP cohort comprises of 49 YPs joining in September 2018 and includes a majority of PhD holders (76%). They have an average of six years of experience. Their last academic degrees were obtained from 39 different Universities in 5 different Continents. The 49 YPs come from 29 different countries, out of which (there are) 10 Sub-Saharan African countries. Seventy-three percent are women.
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"At least three years of relevant professional experience related to development or continued academic study at the doctoral level" ------> phd can satisfy the requirement?
Most of the candidates interviewed last year had Ph.D + some experiencemost of them are specialized in development?
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The newly hired YP cohort comprises of 49 YPs joining in September 2018 and includes a majority of PhD holders (76%). They have an average of six years of experience. Their last academic degrees were obtained from 39 different Universities in 5 different Continents. The 49 YPs come from 29 different countries, out of which (there are) 10 Sub-Saharan African countries. Seventy-three percent are women.
73% percent women ??? Despite the fact that women are under-represented in econ studies?
20% sub-saharian ?? College graduates population-wise this doesn't make sense in the first place, since college graduates in Africa represents less than 2% of college graduates in the world, not talking about PhD population...
Obviously, WB recruits mostly on quotas. Else, there is no way to explain such crazy figures...
You have strictly almost no chances to enter if you are not a woman or do not hold a passport from a crappy country