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In parts of Africa, poverty means that youth look at guns as a way of earning a living.
African youth must be introduced to democracy and pacifism in the classroom.
In my experience, African youth are forgotten except when politicians need them for battle.
If African youth are given a better education and the means to influence their communities, then they will be less likely to be used as cannon-fodder, less likely to pick up a gun, and more likely to read a book.
Far fewer working-age persons--not only women; men too--belong to the labor force in most Continental nations than in the US..Middle-aged retirees and idle youth speak volumes.
Since 2007, employment rates have risen in only six of the 36 advanced economies, while youth unemployment has increased in a large majority of both established and emerging markets.
Moreover, contrary to popular belief, entrepreneurship is not a preserve of youth.
Likewise, America’s youth fetish reinforces negative attitudes toward older people.
With limited educational and economic prospects, talented youth from disadvantaged backgrounds end up running in place.
To avoid such a future, Asian countries need to change the rules of the game, providing opportunities for youth, whatever their background, to ascend the income ladder.
Male youth soccer camps and leagues are either nonexistent or mediocre.
As a result, women and youth remain more likely to be in insecure and poorly remunerated occupations.
We can stand by and watch a new generation of web-savvy Muslim youth be deluged with false claims that Islam cannot coexist with Western values.
Europe’s Fast Track to Youth EmploymentBRUSSELS – Italy’s new prime minister, Matteo Renzi, wants to attack high youth unemployment by cutting taxes on labor.
And the third is the wholly counter-intuitive idea of making youth unemployment a great deal more manageable simply by re-calculating the statistics (that sounds phony, I know, but bear with me).
The headline totals for youth unemployment (those under 24 years old) – around 55% in Greece and Spain, roughly 40% in Italy, and 30% in Ireland – are so daunting that they discourage policy initiatives.
When the number of jobless young people is considered as a ratio of the youth population, the youth unemployment rate falls to 19% in Spain, 13% in Greece, and 12% and 8% in Ireland and Italy, respectively.
Contrary to populist arguments, protectionism will not reduce youth unemployment or income inequality.
As in my youth, I saw once again the challenges and hardship of rural poverty.
And in Europe, there are plenty of legitimate grievances: austerity, widespread youth unemployment, a democratic deficit in the EU, and an overloaded bureaucracy in Brussels.
Iran’s large youth population can be a powerful driver of growth.
But, to tap that potential, there is an urgent need to create jobs, thereby reducing youth unemployment, which stood at 29.4% in 2014 (when total unemployment was 12.8%).
They will listen to the same experts on corruption, schooling, health, and the environment, but will bring the perspective of youth to their deliberations.
Specifically, in order to lower the youth unemployment rate, which currently stands at 11.2%, Moon pledges to create 810,000 jobs in the public sector – including 174,000 civil-service positions in national security and public safety and 340,000 in social services – over the next five years.
Yet youth unemployment is far from South Korea’s biggest employment-related challenge.
And they should put real money into initiatives to train unemployed youth and encourage them to become more mobile.
Given these achievements, it may be no coincidence that Turkey’s youth unemployment rate has also declined, from 25.3% in 2009 to 17.3% in January 2014, below the EU average of 22.8%.
For example, Yoshito Sengoku, Minister of State for Government Revitalization, was once a member of Shaseidou, a left-wing youth group that is reflexively anti-American, as was Hirotaka Akamatsu, Minister of Agriculture, Forestry, and Fisheries.
This need is particularly pressing for those – such as parents, teachers, youth workers, and sports coaches – who are in regular contact with young people.
With youth unemployment at 40%, only a bold reformist president could pull Egypt back from the brink of economic disaster.
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