Category: Employment
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92% of Botswana’s youth completed secondary School, but 46% are unemployed
By managing its diamond wealth transparently, Botswana built a stable economy, institutionalized strong labor laws, and achieved a remarkable 92% secondary school completion rate among its youth. Yet, beneath this pristine macroeconomic veneer lies a devastating structural bottleneck: 46% of those highly educated young people are completely unemployed. Education, as the data reveals, has become…
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Zambia’s mining sector powers some of the largest tech industries but the rewards don’t trickle down to Zambian
The world is going green and Zambia happens to be a major contributor to that transition. Copper has been dubbed by some as the metal of the energy of the energy transition and Zambia happens to be Africa’s second largest copper producer. One of the core use cases of copper is in electric vehicles (which…
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Zimbabwe shows how unemployment reporting is riddled with technicalities
Zimbabwe shows how unemployment reporting is riddled with technicalities Unemployment reporting is convoluted and depending on who you ask the numbers tell different stories. Take Zimbabwe for instance – if you ask for the country’s unemployment rates, you’ll get three different figures from two different sources. What makes things confusing is that all these figures…
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Half of Malawi’s youth have considered leaving. Almost none have a full-time job.
Malawi has one of the stranger employment situations in Southern Africa (yes, the bar is quite low but things can always be worse). As a Zimbabwean, this dawned on me when I read that Malawian youth were queuing up to go work on farms in Israel in 2024. Yes, young people were actively signing up…
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Data is complicated and Mozambique’s labour market illustrates why…
Data is complicated and Mozambique’s labour market illustrates why… Taken at face value statistics can be misleading. Take Mozambique’s labour statistics for instance. When you look at the fact that the country boasts a 98.4% female-to-male labor force participation (LFP) ratio one would think the country is a utopia for gender equality. On paper, women…