Tag: Unemployment in Ghana
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Social enterprise: The quiet solution to Ghana’s unemployment situation [Article]
Social enterprise has become a growing concept in the global world. Institutions have championed the importance of social enterprise/social entrepreneurship within a public policy context globally, nationally, regionally and locally. The aim of this brief article is to discuss the importance of social enterprise as a key problem solver in dealing with the key economic…
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Government can solve unemployment with investments in technical and vocational education- Dr Kwabena Duffuor
The government has been urged to commit adequate resources to Technical and Vocational Education and Training as a way to curb the growing unemployment rate in the country. A former Finance Minister who is also the founding and presiding President of the Institute of Fiscal Studies, Dr Kwabena Duffuor has suggested that the failure to…
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Government to rollout GH¢1 billion Job initiative – Baffour Awuah
The Government of Ghana is to roll out a GH¢1 billion inter-ministerial job creation initiative between now and 2024. One million jobs are to be created under the initiative, which also seeks to strengthen the coordination of job creation efforts across the sectors of the economy. Mr Ignatius Baffour Awuah, the Minister for Employment and…
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Civil servants above retirement age must retire to create jobs for youth – ASEPA
To tackle unemployment in Ghana, the Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), is, among other things, asking the government to compel all personnel in civil service above the mandatory retirement age to proceed on compulsory retirement. A recent report by the Alliance on unemployment shows that close to 40% of persons in the…