CAUSES OF UNEMPLOYMENT AMONG THE YOUTH: A CASE STUDY OF MANYANYA VILLAGE IN BUSIA DISTRICT BY OPOSIA JACOB 09/U/14214/EXT A RESEARCH REPORT SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT FOR THE AWARD OF A DIPLOMA IN YOUTH IN DEVELOPMENT WORK MAKERERE UNIVERSITY JULY 2011 Declaration I Oposia Jacob do hereby declare that causes‚ effects and strategies for youth unemployment is entirely my original work‚ except where acknowledged and that it has not been submitted before to any other University
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period The effect of colonialism in Kenya This essay analyses the effect of colonialism in Kenya. It explains the depth of colonialism within Kenya’s context and analyses the impact of colonial conquest‚ the imposition of international and local administrative boundaries. It also examined further the lasting consequences of colonial economic and social policies concerning colonialism in Kenya. This essay gives more explanation that has to do with British colonialism in Kenya. Colonialism
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(temporarily‚ I hope) I am one of them. Yet I am convinced there has never been a better time to be young. The world is bursting with opportunity; every day‚ new inventions answer questions we had never thought to ask. It’s time to tackle youth unemployment in that spirit; as Einstein said‚ “we can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Generation Y should stop asking “why me?” and start asking “why not?” First‚ we must adopt the right mindset: positive
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Abstract The Youth‚ who form a critical mass of the Kenyan population‚ are unemployed. Efforts have been made to alleviate the problem of youth unemployment in Kenya. However‚ these strategies and efforts have come under intense scrutiny in the recent years with the ever rising unemployment rates. This research set to critically examine the existing strategies and efforts to alleviate unemployment among the urban youth with the view to make recommendations on how best the strategies can be implemented
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focus in this essay lies with youth unemployment in South Africa. South Africa defines youth as people between the ages of 15 and 34 years old while the International Labour Organisation (ILO) defines youth in a more restricted manner as people between the ages of 15 and 24 years. Using South Africa’s definition‚ in December 2010‚ about 3 million young people were unemployed and 1.3 were discouraged. This translates to about 72 per cent of the overall unemployment. On the other hand when using the
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A CRITICAL ANALYSIS OF CURRICULUM OFFERING AT MASENO YOUTH POLYTECHNIC‚EMUHAYA DISTRICT OF WESTERN PROVINCE. BY CHRIS PHELIX OKOTH ED/MPHIL/7017/09 SUPERVISOR- CIM 898 DR. ANN KISILU A research thesis submitted in partial‚ fulfillment for the requirement of the award of Master of Philosophy Degree in Curriculum Development: Department of Curriculum Instructional and Educational Media‚ School Of Education; Moi University. AUGUST 2010 ABSTRACT. The purpose of this study was to establish the
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The case of youth unemployment in Nigeria has been a popular discourse with various perspectives to causes and consequences of unemployment. The rate of youth unemployment has been alarming according to the National Bureau of Statistics. In 2004‚ young people aged between 15-24 years made up 52.9% of the total number of unemployed persons while those aged between 25-44 made up a further 41.1% . It is also estimated that there would be 14 million new entrants into the labour market between 2009-2011
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The youth unemployed should be one the groups the most in need for financial support in Hong Kong. They face keen competition and suffer from the local economic regression‚ which create difficulty to them earning a living. Young people‚ in general‚ refers to people in the age groups of 15-19 and 20-24 (Chung Kim-wah 2009). They are recognized as labor force in Hong Kong‚ but their employment opportunities are not optimistic. Those school leavers in the age of 15-24 entering the labor market have
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Causes and Effects of Unemployment Unemployment or joblessness is a state of life in which a person is missing a paid employment opportunity and is actively seeking work. Nowadays hundreds of millions of people are off the pay roll‚ roughly corresponding to about seven percent of the world’s population‚ whereas these rates can be much higher in regions of Southern and Western Africa or the Middle East. Furthermore‚ in the era of globalization and in a time of financial market disruptions unemployment
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11/18/2011 Suleyman Causes and Effects of Unemployment Unemployment rate is the litmus paper of a country’s economy‚ security and its overall production force. The more unemployment rate increases the more consumption rate decreases. Since many people are unemployed‚ their spending power struggles causing the economic wheel to stop rotating. High Unemployment rates indirectly induce a widespread of insecurity within the general population. Unemployment‚ which caused by many factors has had
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