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Putting Young Africans to Work: Addressing Africa’s youth unemployment crisis draws on a series of Dialogues held in May 2011 with the governments of Zambia, Mozambique and Swaziland. The Dialogues were convened by The Brenthurst Foundation and com- prised distinguished experts from the United States, Costa Rica, Argentina, the Ivory […]

UN labor agency reports that global youth unemployment is at an all-time high read more  

The ILO’s Executive Director of Employment, José Manuel Salazar, is interviewed at the start of BBC World TV’s week-long focus on the issue of global youth unemployment.

Until now a good education was considered a job guarantee, but today Finland, the country that comes top in education surveys, is faced with high youth joblessness.

A visual representation of youth unemployment around the world read more