Youth employment and politics
Over 40 percent of global populations are under 25 yet young people cannot secure work and increasingly face a crisis of citizenship....
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Over 40 percent of global populations are under 25 yet young people cannot secure work and increasingly face a crisis of citizenship....
Most of the world’s poor today are found in rural Africa, and forecasts suggest that this concentration might become more pronounced...
Published by: Brookings Institution
Opportunities for employment, or the lack of them, have long been a central interest of African governments, young people, and their...
Published by: Oxfam Novib
The program applies a holistic approach to tackle issues of economic empowerment, gender-based discrimination, youth agency and enabling policy and normative environments
There is consensus among policymakers and the research community that demand for young people’s labour is the main constraint to...
This desk research, conducted by IDS over 6 months, worked to increase the understanding of the long-term changing nature of work and the impact on the Global South, including labour markets, employment models and understandings of work but also the impact on society itself.
Through our research, policy engagement, teaching and training, we support the emergence of development pathways that deliver both...
Published by: Institute of Development Studies
As policy-makers turn their attention to Africa’s youth employment challenge and respond with programmes targeting young people, it is...
The triad of entrepreneurship, self-employment, and financial inclusion underpins policy and development interventions meant to address the youth employment challenge in Africa. Youth savings groups are being widely promoted as a first step toward financial inclusion and economic empowerment.