The Nigerian government must design more interventions to improve education, employment opportunities and the economy in order to control the country’s population growth.
Louise Humpage, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
Life on social welfare can feel ‘soul destroying’. The May 20 Budget could start to fix that — but an unemployment insurance scheme isn’t the right solution.
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
The budget is Australia’s State of the Union. It’s the only night of the year the government sets out a program against which it can be held accountable.
Peter Martin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
47 of the 60 leading economists surveyed by the Economic Society and The Conversation back the Treasurer’s decision to aim for an unemployment rate of less than 5%.
If the best people management practices of the formal economy were to be deployed in the informal economy, new avenues of stimulating economic and life empowerment may be opened.
The government will aim at driving unemployment below pre-pandemic levels and avoid any sharp pivot towards “austerity” in its May 11 budget, Treasurer Josh Frydenberg will say on Thursday.
Most pandemic policies have benefited those already best off in US society and ignored people for whom neither mass shutdowns nor reopening offer relief.
Despite bleak employment outlooks, college graduates can take some simple steps to boost their chances of finding a job, a veteran career services counselor says.
Renee McKibbin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University; Peter M. Downes, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University y Warwick J. McKibbin, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
Done right, JobMaker can support 100,000 jobs, but it’ll have to happen soon.
JobKeeper and the COVID Supplement to JobSeeker benefits will be gone in a week. The combined effect will be to halve some recipients’ incomes and the rent they can afford.