Combating Youth Unemployment in Africa

November 3, 2011

Young men selling snacks in the market. A lack of skills traps many young Africans in low productivity jobs (Yannick Tylle/Corbis)
- Combating Youth Unemployment in Africa
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Worldwide, the rate of unemployment among people aged 15–24 years old, stands at over 13 percent, according to the International Labor Organization.
Mwase Nkunde: IMF
Shantayanan Devarajan: World bank
John May: World bank
Eduardo Bos: World Bank
Johannes Muller: IMF
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