A new research from the Tony Blair Institute has revealed that part of Africa could suffer a massive unemployment crisis by 2050.
The report predicted a shortfall of 50 million jobs, which should serve as a “wake-up call” for governments across much of the continent, as well as international donors and agencies.
According to the analysis by the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, based on world bank data, the labour force in sub-Saharan Africa will be 823 million by 2040, up from 395 million in 2015. However, total number of jobs is only expected to hit 773 million, it said, leaving 50 million people in Africa unemployed.
The report found that countries with high economic potential - such as Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Nigeria and Sierra Leone - were failing to transform and achieve growth.
The governments of the listed countries were advised to pursue 'inclusive growth strategies to achieve growth.
The report also highlighted the progress of Botswana, Ethiopia and Mauritius, which it said had made significant progress in recent decades, due to a political leaders working alongside stakeholders and development partners.
It said Mauritius spent 10 years focussing on textiles and a subsequent 10 years in tourism, while Ethiopia and Botswana focussed on agriculture and services, respectively for 20 years.
The three countries have been able to achieve a bit of growth with the progress they have made so far.
6 comments:
Really disturbing statistics, but trust our African leaders...they won't pay any attention to this as they will easily write it off.
They will never learn especially lagos state, who tax you like a criminal and levy you in irrelevant things. You know people don't earn properly, which means they will not pay for the real value of goods, yet you want business to survive, lagos state does not allloow the SME grow into medium company, and the medium to big, later we will say the youths cannot find jobs, hold lagos state responsible. Hw many eatery have closed mainly bcos of lagos state and recession playing a lesser role
They will never learn especially lagos state, who tax you like a criminal and levy you in irrelevant things. You know people don't earn properly, which means they will not pay for the real value of goods, yet you want business to survive, lagos state does not allloow the SME grow into medium company, and the medium to big, later we will say the youths cannot find jobs, hold lagos state responsible. Hw many eatery have closed mainly bcos of lagos state and recession playing a lesser role
They will never learn especially lagos state, who tax you like a criminal and levy you in irrelevant things. You know people don't earn properly, which means they will not pay for the real value of goods, yet you want business to survive, lagos state does not allloow the SME grow into medium company, and the medium to big, later we will say the youths cannot find jobs, hold lagos state responsible. Hw many eatery have closed mainly bcos of lagos state and recession playing a lesser role
They will never learn especially lagos state, who tax you like a criminal and levy you in irrelevant things. You know people don't earn properly, which means they will not pay for the real value of goods, yet you want business to survive, lagos state does not allloow the SME grow into medium company, and the medium to big, later we will say the youths cannot find jobs, hold lagos state responsible. Hw many eatery have closed mainly bcos of lagos state and recession playing a lesser role
Africa is full of a lot of graduates both our problem is creativity. Most of us that are still in school now, should better wake up and find something to do on our own before its too late.
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