Driss Guerraoui: The Four Challenges Related to Youth Employment
16 January 2014
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Text: On the sidelines of the World Summit of Young Leaders, held until January 17 in Dakar, Moroccan professor Driss Guerraoui announced that Morocco has the lowest unemployment rate in the Maghreb. He also listed the four challenges related to youth employment in the world.
Morocco has the lowest youth unemployment rate (18%, editor's note) compared to other countries in the Maghreb region, namely Algeria, where this rate far exceeds 50%, stressed Tuesday in Dakar, Professor Driss Guerraoui, member of the international organizing committee of the World Summit of Young Leaders.
Four major challenges characterize the employment situation of young people in Morocco, Africa and the world, he told MAP, during the fourth Pan-African Summit of Young Leaders of the United Nations for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose work continues until January 17.
The first challenge is demographic in nature. It lies in "the growing pressure of the working-age population, seeking a first job that is incommensurate with the possibilities of job creation by the different sectors of activity of our national economies," explained Mr. Guerraoui.
This demographic reality, he estimated, will be aggravated by the sustained and accelerated pace of rural exodus to cities that do not offer appropriate reception structures in terms of employment, education, health, housing...
"This demographic challenge leads to the objective impossibility for African countries to achieve both growth and full employment, despite the growth margins available to the continent compared to other regions of the world."
DRISS GUERRAOUI, MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE WORLD SUMMIT OF YOUNG LEADERS.
The second challenge is that of the school crisis and its impact on the production of skills and elites of a level of excellence commensurate with the continent's ambitions in terms of modernizing its economy and its competitiveness.
The third challenge is linked to the relationship of society to work, the main feature of which is to expect everything from the State, family and society in terms of employment, noted Mr. Guerraoui. For him, this behavior must radically change in favor of a rationality focused on the dichotomy "seek-find-create".
The fourth challenge lies in "the new reality of our productive systems where modes of organization of economic activities are looming on the horizon, allowing more and more goods and services to be produced, with less and less manpower".
"All this is happening at a time when our economies and societies have exhausted all possibilities of financing growth and solidarity," decrypts the expert. Driss Guerraoui is convinced that "the only way to promote employment, and the sustainable fight against youth unemployment, remains the ability of our nations to create new economic activities by and for the creation of new wealth".
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Aufaitmaroc.com
Published on January 15, 2014.
Posted online on January 16, 2014.
Morocco has the lowest youth unemployment rate (18%, editor's note) compared to other countries in the Maghreb region, namely Algeria, where this rate far exceeds 50%, stressed Tuesday in Dakar, Professor Driss Guerraoui, member of the international organizing committee of the World Summit of Young Leaders.
Four major challenges characterize the employment situation of young people in Morocco, Africa and the world, he told MAP, during the fourth Pan-African Summit of Young Leaders of the United Nations for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose work continues until January 17.
The first challenge is demographic in nature. It lies in "the growing pressure of the working-age population, seeking a first job that is incommensurate with the possibilities of job creation by the different sectors of activity of our national economies," explained Mr. Guerraoui.
This demographic reality, he estimated, will be aggravated by the sustained and accelerated pace of rural exodus to cities that do not offer appropriate reception structures in terms of employment, education, health, housing...
"This demographic challenge leads to the objective impossibility for African countries to achieve both growth and full employment, despite the growth margins available to the continent compared to other regions of the world."
DRISS GUERRAOUI, MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE OF THE WORLD SUMMIT OF YOUNG LEADERS.
The second challenge is that of the school crisis and its impact on the production of skills and elites of a level of excellence commensurate with the continent's ambitions in terms of modernizing its economy and its competitiveness.
The third challenge is linked to the relationship of society to work, the main feature of which is to expect everything from the State, family and society in terms of employment, noted Mr. Guerraoui. For him, this behavior must radically change in favor of a rationality focused on the dichotomy "seek-find-create".
The fourth challenge lies in "the new reality of our productive systems where modes of organization of economic activities are looming on the horizon, allowing more and more goods and services to be produced, with less and less manpower".
"All this is happening at a time when our economies and societies have exhausted all possibilities of financing growth and solidarity," decrypts the expert. Driss Guerraoui is convinced that "the only way to promote employment, and the sustainable fight against youth unemployment, remains the ability of our nations to create new economic activities by and for the creation of new wealth".
aufait with MAP
Aufaitmaroc.com
Published on January 15, 2014.
Posted online on January 16, 2014.
