Due to an article I found, about 10 to 12 million Sub-Saharan youth enter the labor market each year. This growth provides and opportunity for a demographic dividend (the amount of working age people outweighs the number of dependents), it prevents the risk of hight unemployment. The website I researched provided me with multiple essays that were written by five of Brookings Africa Growth Initiatives. The essays contained ways to fix the youth unemployment issue.
In the first essay, the most important thing it proposes it a program that teaches skills to young people over a two year period of time and then hires these individuals to work on rural community projects that show their newly learned work skills. I think this is such a good way to fix the youth unemployment because not only is this program teaching them skills they currently need, but hiring them also. Many other programs I have learned about just taught skills but never gave them an oppurtunity to use them. Another essay explained another important way to overcome youth unemployment. Paying close attention to the young women seeking jobs can lead to more women actually getting hired. Women often are discriminated in land ownership and must overcome cultural attitudes that still see women as caretakers. A third lesson is that government-sponsored vouchers and subsidies can help resolve the targeting problem by preserving a degree of enterprise and individual choice. These tools are especially worthy of consideration in situations where government services have the potential to be misdirected, either by going to recipients who should not receive them or by not reaching recipients who should.
Unlike most of the articles we have previously used, this one focuses on the ways to help youth unemployment. It opened my eyes a lot to how we can actually help these people instead of just focusing on the percentages.
If people are able to write about the solutions to these problems , then why can they not put them to use? Clearly the people of Africa know that there are ways to help their people and their economy become better and stronger. Hopefully these solutions can be used , even if it's in the future. Africa needs help desperately because it's just getting worse.
ReplyDeleteI like that this blog is the positive and not all negative. It doesn't focus on the problem and pays attention to the solution. It's good to see that there is a solution and that they're not stuck. It's pretty cool to see that they are providing a program that not only pays to be there but teaches them also. There is also room to grow and this program defiantly lets you. Also, I like that they are focusing on the women and see that if they get jobs, more and more women will get hired.
ReplyDeleteAgain, I agree with Court. People are talking about solutions to the problem but no one is making an effort to do anything about it. They're not taking action and actually making these things happen. It's good to have the idea of solutions, but unfortunately the problem can't be fixed unless people actually start doing something about it.
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