Alleviating Youth Unemployment The current state of unemployment in South Africa is one of major concern‚ with the main focus of this concern being on the alarmingly low level of youth employment. Of the already worrying 25% unemployment that exists in the country‚ 70% is attributable to individuals aged 15 to 35. The extent of the problem can be further illustrated by the fact that there are currently approximately 2.8 million South Africans aged between 18 and 24 who are unemployed and not enrolled
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The problem of unemployment has all along been existed in Pakistan since its inception. It has occupied a centre in the country therefore‚ Pakistan’s new generations suffers from this problem a lot. Causes behind the unemployment of youth. 1-there are no vacancies for youth in the market‚ it is already saturated. 2- Population explosion. 3-Education system is backward so that youth are not fully prepared to come to the market demands. 4-Fiscal deficit in budget has detracted the ratio of the
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Youth restiveness and unemployment in Nigeria: The way out part 1 On November 12‚ 2012 · In Finance 12:00 am The words ‘youth’ and ‘restiveness’ have become so commonly used together in the last couple of years that it seems to have taken on a life of its own. In the last decade and more there has been a proliferation of cases all over the country and indeed the world‚ of youth agitations which have tons of people dead and valuable infrastructure as well as personal properties lost and destroyed
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YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT “A man willing to work‚ and unable to find work‚ is perhaps the saddest sight that fortune’s inequality exhibits under the sun.” “You take my life when you take the means whereby I live.” These observations by Thomas Carlyle and William Shakespeare respectively reflect what youth unemployment means to me. As I reflect on youth unemployment‚ several thoughts and examples cross my mind. Here are a few: Almost every week one reads in newspapers in India‚ my country‚ about farmers
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Economic University Topic: The youth and unemployment problems Student of the 1st group Second year Vakulenko Iryna Kiev 2010 Youth is the time of life between childhood and adulthood (maturity). Definitions of the specific age range that constitutes youth vary. An individual’s actual maturity
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CHAPTER ONE 1.1 INTRODUCTION Economic growth is fundamental for sustainable development. It is not possible‚ for a developing country‚ to ameliorate the quality of life of its growing population without economic growth. The relationship between government expenditure and economic growth has continued to generate series of debate among scholars. Government performs two functions- protection (and security) and provisions of certain public goods (Abdullah‚ 2000) and (Al-Yousif‚ 2000). Protection
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Youth unemployment in Kazakhstan Kazakhstan - one of the fast developing countries in the world where young people must become a major demographic in the workforce. It is difficult to assume that the «next generation» can be considered as a self-sufficient group of people in the state. According to the research of statistical organizations about a half of the world’s population under the age of twenty four is unemployed. Recently‚ in Kazakhstan‚ it has become a tendency that most young people
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INTRODUCTION Nigeria like most developing nations of the world is faced with myriad of problems and harsh realities which include poverty‚ unemployment‚ conflicts and diseases. These situations pose great challenges to the very existence of individuals in most developing nations thereby calling for the training of educated man and women who can function effectively in the society in which they live in. available information by National Universities Commission (NUC) (2004) reiterate the massive
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The youth unemployed should be one the groups the most in need for financial support in Hong Kong. They face keen competition and suffer from the local economic regression‚ which create difficulty to them earning a living. Young people‚ in general‚ refers to people in the age groups of 15-19 and 20-24 (Chung Kim-wah 2009). They are recognized as labor force in Hong Kong‚ but their employment opportunities are not optimistic. Those school leavers in the age of 15-24 entering the labor market have
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CAUSES OF UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG THE YOUTH: A CASE STUDY OF MANYANYA VILLAGE IN BUSIA DISTRICT BY OPOSIA JACOB 09/U/14214/EXT A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF A DIPLOMA IN YOUTH IN DEVELOPMENT WORK MAKERERE UNIVERSITY JULY 2011 Declaration I Oposia Jacob do hereby declare that causes‚ effects and strategies for youth unemployment is entirely my original work‚ except where acknowledged and that it has not been submitted before to any other University
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