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This turmoil has created a fertile breeding ground for militarized and radicalized youth.
The 2008 global financial crisis left the US economy mired in a low-level equilibrium, characterized by sluggish job creation, persistently high long-term and youth unemployment, and growing inequalities of income, wealth, and opportunity.
With another year of uneven job creation, the problems associated with long-term and youth unemployment have become more deeply embedded in the economy’s structure.
We want refugee youth around the world to be inspired by our experience.
That is why, since 2004, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), of which I am president, has supported sports-for-development programs for at-risk youth in 18 countries.
In Europe, researchers have found that youth recreation centers where activities are not structured sometimes become gathering places for kids involved in high-risk behavior such as gang activity.
With personal incomes rising strongly, poverty is declining, while 68% of Russia’s college-age youth now attend universities.
In South Korea, which has the world’s highest density of industrial robots – 631 per 10,000 workers – manufacturing employment is declining, and youth unemployment is high.
They have, and there probably will be more of them, so long as the Middle East remains in turmoil and revolutionary Islam appeals to disaffected Western youth.
During his 42 years in power, Qaddafi surrounded himself with advisers who were companions from his youth, supplemented by a small coterie of technocrats.
Arab youth have rescued the Arab world from this fate.
Our responsibility here is twofold: to put growth back on track, but also to respond immediately to the human tragedy that has hit our youth.
He began as an activist in the Labor Party and its youth movement in the early 1940s.
With an unemployment rate of 25.3% – and youth unemployment running at 53.9% – the situation appears grim.
The danger is that slow growth will not lead to sufficient wage gains and job creation to defuse the ticking time bomb of high youth unemployment in many countries.
The continent’s youth population is projected to double by 2050, to 840 million, and yet Africa’s schools and universities are not producing enough graduates with the technical skills to succeed in the workplace of tomorrow.
Listening to Africa’s Future FarmersNAIROBI – Africa is in the midst of a youth employment crisis.
And, finally, countries must find ways to involve their youth in early stages of the technology-development pipeline.
To defuse the protests, President Jacques Chirac was forced to withdraw the provision, and instead has proposed hiring subsidies as a way to reduce youth joblessness.
More than 70% of sub-Saharan Africa’s population is under 30 years old – a youth bulge that could fuel rapid economic development, as has happened in Asia over the last three decades.
While Africa’s leaders are well aware of these shortcomings, they lack the resources to address them alone – especially given growing demand from the youth bulge.
According to official data, 60% of the working population is employed in the informal sector, while youth unemployment is exceptionally high.
His worldview was shaped by the fact that he spent part of his youth in Indonesia and had an African father.
As the June 2009 election protests showed, Iran’s urban youth desperately want to end the country’s isolation, but they have increasingly found that the only way out of isolation is to study or work abroad – and never return.
Such credit constraints are one reason why unemployment rates continue to rise in so many countries – often from already alarming levels, such as 25% in Greece and Spain (where youth unemployment is above 50%) – and why unemployment remains unusually high in countries like the US (albeit it at a much lower level).
Yet, as the security expert Sajjan M. Gohel has observed, “the displaced and disillusioned Taliban youth of today” have “found solace and purpose in an extremely radical interpretation of Islam.”
As one businesswoman I interviewed put it, “Dubai has all the ingredients of an extremely popular attraction for investors and tourists from around the world,” with “a substantial number of Arab youth aspiring to come and live the ‘Dubai Dream.’”
Europe already feared that rising youth unemployment in the region would create dangerous instability along Europe’s southern flank.
Given that promoting sustainable urbanization and improving coordination would bolster progress in other priority areas (including women’s rights, climate change, youth unemployment, and literacy), sustainable urbanization must become a bureaucratic priority.
Making sustainable urbanization a strategic priority might be the only way to overcome the interrelated crises of jobless growth, youth unemployment, and income inequality.
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