Scapegoating immigrants will not result in significantly improved healthcare service provision, reduced crime or less unemployment.
Mahdi Shaban, a Palestinian living in Gaza, paid for his master’s degree with earnings from digging graves.
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Political and economic forces across the Middle East and North Africa combine to mean well-educated young people spend years looking for work, which delays their independence and adulthood.
Interest rate hike may not directly impact the average Nigerian.
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It is hard to fathom how Nigeria’s Central Bank interest rate increase would benefit most Nigerians.
Heavy rains in April 2022 killed dozens of people and destroyed thousands of homes in Durban, South Africa.
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Structural reforms to South Africa’s economy need to be accelerated.
Emphasis on innovation and entrepreneurialism in Nigeria has shifted responsibility for creating employment from employers to unemployed youths.
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Ending violence against foreigners can only happen by first recognising – and addressing – the hazards of South Africa’s crumbling system of indirect rule.
Boda boda riders carry passengers at Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.
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Douglas Lucas Kivoi, The Kenya Institute for Public Policy Research and Analysis (KIPPRA)
The entire transport sector in Kenya is extremely chaotic and in need of urgent policy and legal interventions.
Ederies Samodien offers a child apples at a shack settlement as part of a poverty relief effort in Cape Town. Almost 56% of South Africans live in poverty.
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There’s a crucial need to connect the most vulnerable people with public services in order to tackle systemic poverty and disadvantage. An integrated approach is key.
Threatened by insecurity, farmers in Nigeria’s farm belt are increasingly abandoning their land, leading to higher cost of food
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Nigeria’s post COVID-19 economic recovery plan has resulted in only marginal improvements in economic growth, manufacturing and foreign direct investment.
Children watch as police work behind a cordon where a young victim of a gang shooting lies dead on the ground.
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Findings show that in the face of marginalisation and social exclusion, youth in gangs think that they have no options except violence to prove that they are ‘real’ men in their communities.
Women fill plastic shopping bags with light polyethelene plastics to make soccer balls from re-used plastics in Cape Town. Women bear the brunt of joblessness in South Africa.
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Racial and gender disparities in access to work are entrenched features of the South African labour market.
An unemployed man collects trash for resale in Diepsloot Johannesburg. Calls are growing for a basic income grant for poor South Africans.
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Basic income must be embedded within a broader strategy of economic reform, aimed at increasing the social wage and improving working conditions.
Four things that count when it comes to employability: the reputation of the university, networks/ connections, experience, and type of work.
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Universities shouldn’t only attend to the knowledge and skills graduates need for work but also the factors that give graduates a better chance of earning a living and participating in society.
Looters grab items from a vandalised mall in South Africa.
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South Africa can’t possibly remain the same country in the aftermath of this mayhem. There are just too many storms ahead to simply continue unchanged.
Makeshift shops have mushroomed as people try to make ends meet amid South Africa’s excessive unemployment.
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Many unemployed young people are engaged in a variety of economic activities. These may not necessarily be recognised as a form of self employment or informal employment.
Promoting entrepreneurship will help reduce unemployment in South Africa. But the government has to step up its game.
Delft after protests against the local government. One of South Africa’s first social impact bonds funded a project in the town.
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Two social impact bonds that have concluded in South Africa showed that they got innovation going where it was desperately needed.
A group of young men wait on a road for work in South Africa. A staggering 74% of the country’s youth are jobless.
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Relying solely on job placement as an indicator of successful intervention misses out on outcomes that are equally important, or more so, amid high structural unemployment.
Graduates in the science, engineering and technology fields enjoy an advantage in the labour market.
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