Most of the African countries are suffering from rapid unemployment rates. What are the causes of this situation?

      

Most of the African countries are suffering from rapid unemployment rates.
Discuss the causes of this situation.

  

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Maurice
(i) Lack of market for a product leading to closure of firms hence many employees rendered unemployment.

(ii) Inadequate co-operant factor inputs like land, capital and entrepreneurship that are needed to be combined with labour for production to take place.

(iii) Inappropriate education system where the skills and knowledge acquired from school do not match those required in the labour market.

(iv) Rural-urban migration.

(v) Rapid population growth that surpasses the rate of job creation.

(vi) Seasonality in production leading to unemployment during the off peak periods.

(vii) Inappropriate technology that is, use of capital intensive methods of production instead of labour intensive methods in a highly populated country.
maurice.mutuku answered the question on July 1, 2017 at 14:48


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