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Overall unemployment has climbed to 12%, while the rate for youth not attending school has soared to 44%.
Here, Africa’s youth merit special attention: the survey found that the 16-34 age group already accounts for 53% of income in urban centers.
On the contrary, they are poised to confront a massive youth bulge, with more than 100 million people under the age of 30 entering the domestic job market in North Africa between now and 2025.
The likely consequences of North Africa’s youth bulge are thus renewed social unrest and potentially sizeable migration flows to Europe.
Second, Europe’s ongoing crisis (more like a chronic condition) has kept growth far too low and unemployment – especially youth unemployment – unacceptably high.
As a result, Britain, France, and The Netherlands contain deeply entrenched subcultures of alienated, radicalized Muslim youth.
Our youth are at an all-time high risk of drug addiction from the massive flow of narcotics, particularly amphetamine-type stimulants (ATS), from Burma, while the generals there maintain congenial ties with notorious drug lords.
Flexible Employment is KeyGLATTBRUG, SWITZERLAND – Rising youth unemployment, especially in Europe, is making headlines worldwide.
The youth unemployment rate exceeds 25% in 13 European countries, amounting to roughly 30% in Italy, Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary, and Slovakia, and surpassing 55% in Greece and Spain.
In some countries – such as Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, and Poland – youth unemployment costs more than 2% of GDP.
The European Commission has placed youth unemployment high on its agenda.
With the right tools and support, private employment agencies can help to arrest the downward spiral of youth unemployment.
This program, proposed originally by the then director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, Frederick Goodwin, originally ran into a hostility over its potentially racist overtones – ie, repeated coded references to “high-impact inner city” youth.
Moreover, the Greeks and Spaniards are unlikely to be able to bear the strain of economic austerity much longer, with youth unemployment inching toward 60%.
Shortly after the news of the Cologne attacks broke, it was revealed that similar attacks had taken place at the We Are Stockholm youth festival in the Swedish capital two years in a row, with young refugee men encircling and sexually assaulting teenage girls.
But it’s not just in war-torn Syria and Yemen where youth are systematically neglected; shortcomings abound in relatively stable countries such as Egypt and Jordan.
According to the International Labor Organization, the Middle East had the world's highest youth unemployment rates in 2014, with 46% of women and 24% of men out of work.
This toxic combination of poor education and high youth unemployment leaves millions of young people lingering in a purgatory that American University professor Diane Singerman calls “waithood.”
Yet, unless Egyptian youth have hope and opportunity, security assistance is only a Band-Aid.
The service now has 500,000 users and offers a Syrian curriculum to service the 50% of that country’s refugee youth who are out of school.
Last April, Abdul Aziz al-Ghurair, a billionaire businessman from the United Arab Emirates, launched the Arab world’s largest education fund, allocating $1.14 billion in grants for underserved youth from the region.
For that to happen, the education of Middle Eastern youth must be regarded as a strategic issue, worthy of just as much global foreign-policy attention as the fight against extremist groups.
But the new leadership wants to distinguish between al-Qaeda terrorists and religious conservatives and disillusioned Pashtun youth within Pakistan.
In France, Italy, and Spain, growth is too slow, unemployment is high, and youth unemployment is even higher.
If sufficient employment opportunities are created for this youth wave, the benefits to African economies will be profound.
By 2055, the continent’s youth population (aged 15-24), is expected to be more than double the 2015 total of 226 million.
But Africa can thrive if its governments act now to tap the energy and dynamism of the burgeoning youth population.
To help overcome this barrier, governments should treat generational inequality with the same sense of urgency as other forms of inequality, accelerating efforts to introduce youth quotas for political parties, parliaments, and other decision-making institutions.
One hopes that the growing recognition of the need to create opportunities for young people leads to effective, solidarity-based initiatives that address the barriers to youth empowerment on the continent, instead of erecting barriers to prevent young people from leaving.
Yet I am aware of how human rights advocates deplore the enlistment of youth into Africa's wars, where the lives of many children are ruined.
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