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It is being dubbed the second scramble for Africa: millions of acres of land are being snapped up by companies from Asia and the Middle East, channel4.com reports.

The ancient México-Tenochtitlan was created on the lake of Texcoco. There, the Aztecs –our grateful ancestors– worshiped Tlaloc, the god of rain, a creator of life. Hundreds of years later Mexicans have forgotten that with great natural resources comes a great responsibility, and, even though 2009 brought the worst drought […]

Are prospects for youth employment better or worse than predicted in the GET Youth 2010? What are the latest figures? What has changed since the report was released, where and why? These are some of the questions that will be examined in the present update. [issuu width=420 height=296 backgroundColor=%23222222 documentId=111223125050-c9027a0dcf074dcabea13ba76787353a name=wcms_165455 […]

Youth employment has grown in prominence on national and global development agendas. The youth employment challenge has its own dimensions and confronts countries worldwide regardless of their stage of socio-economic development. The underlying problems are the large number of young people entering the labour markets every year, the lack of […]

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 […]