Keyword: youth unemployment

Free Market Ideologues Devoid of New Ideas to Build a More Inclusive SA Economy

Picture: SACSIS Video Speaking at an event to examine different ideological perspectives – left, right and centre - on building a more inclusive South African economy, Ann Bernstein of the Centre for Development and Enterprise (CDE) called for continued fiscal discipline, which she argued has been responsible for lifting millions of people out of poverty in countries like India, Brazil and South Africa. This panel discussion was co-hosted by the South African Civil Society Information Service (SACSIS)...

Global Youth Unemployment Remains at Crisis Levels

Picture: As seen on The Real News Network. Video A new global study finds that 75 million youth worldwide are unemployed, which is a huge number, but James Heintz, associate director at American research organisation, Political Economy Research Institute (PERI), argues that the bigger problem is the fact that 500 million (half a billion) youth are employed in what’s known as the informal economy where they are engaged in very low-quality jobs. Often youth are employed in those jobs even though they have much higher qualifications...