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Unlike India's, South Africa's business process outsourcing sector is not generating jobs that offer workers the chance of progressing up the career ladder.
This is a transcript of part 6 of India Tomorrow, focusing on India's huge population of young people.
In some Nigerian universities, wealthy female students engage in trasnactional sex for pleasure, while those that needed financial support did it for the money.
A doctor explains how he introduces mindfulness to self-harming youth in the emergency room.
In 2008, Australia had a national homelessness strategy, plus a ten-point roadmap to reduce youth homelessness. Why has it fallen so far short of its goals, and what still needs to be done?
Facing up to the horror of climate change can help us work towards a more sustainable culture. Young people are leading the way.
Vaping devices were designed as a clean way of delivering nicotine, to help people stop smoking tobacco. Now, with gummy bear flavours and celebrity endorsements, they are a serious public health problem.
People who use party drugs say it gives them energy to dance and socialise, reduces their inhibitions and enhances their feelings of connection to others.
LGBTQ youth use Tumblr more frequently than others. The platform has provided a safe space for youth to explore sexual identities and find crucial support. A new regulating policy may change all that.
Indigenous entrepreneurship is growing at a rate six times faster than the general Canadian population and it is 10 years younger. Culturally relevant financial literacy is critical to its success.
Andrew Giles on the growing issue of loneliness
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Ahead of the release of the most comprehensive data on loneliness in Australia, by the Australian Psychologists Society, Labor frontbencher Andrew Giles speaks about this "contagious phenomenon".
Last week's hearing with Brett Kavanaugh raised questions about how responsible we are for our youthful actions. A legal scholar says that youthful inexperience doesn’t let us off the hook.
The notion that religious groups are opposed to sex-ed is simply not true. And our youth need it more than ever to take control over their lives, their bodies and their decisions.
Is it always good to talk about violent pasts? Sixty Rwandan youths participated in a research project that aimed to understand the perspectives of people born of rapes committed during the genocide
South Africa needs to improve efforts to increase student numbers at technical colleges.
This weekend sees a major youth climate rally in Washington DC. But do young people really hold the key to overcoming climate inaction, or are we wrong to put our faith in their ability to drive change?
Interviews with hundreds of unaccompanied minors in Los Angeles reveal that relationships with US sponsors can be complicated.
Indonesia has the region's highest rate of smoking among youths – one in five between the ages of 13 and 15 smoke. What should the government should do to stop youth from smoking?
Human Resources must adapt quickly to changes in the workplace to remain relevant and useful.
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Professor, Education Policy and Practice, Youth Studies & Deputy Dean, Faculty of Education, Monash University
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Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
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Danielle Wood is a Friend of The Conversation.
Program Director, Budget Policy and Institutional Reform, Grattan Institute
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Professor of Economics, University of Melbourne
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Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Monash University
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Lecturer in Youth Work, RMIT University
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Sessional Lecturer and Tutor, RMIT University
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Dean of Faculty & Professor of Human Resource Management, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Etudiante PhD, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Sr Research Fellow/ Sr Lecturer, University of Sydney
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Professor of Violence Prevention and Addiction Studies, Deakin University
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Associate Professor, Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University
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Professor in School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Professor of Public Health, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor, Swansea University
