Youth Unemployment in Morocco is the Lowest in the Maghreb Region.
21 January 2014
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In Algeria, this rate far exceeds 50% among young graduates.
Morocco has the lowest youth unemployment rate compared to other countries in the Greater Maghreb region, namely Algeria, where this rate far exceeds 50% among young graduates, Professor Driss Guerraoui, a member of the World Young Leaders Summit organizing committee, emphasized Tuesday in Dakar.
Four major challenges characterize the employment situation of young people in Morocco, Africa, and the world, he told MAP, on the sidelines of the participation of a Moroccan delegation representing the youth associative network, at the fourth Pan-African Summit of United Nations Youth Leaders for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose work continues until the 17th of this month in the Senegalese capital.
The first challenge is demographic in nature and lies in "the growing pressure of the working-age population looking for a first job, disproportionate to the job creation possibilities of the various sectors of activity of our national economies," explained Mr. Guerraoui, who was asked during this Summit to present the Moroccan experience and its performance in combating unemployment and promoting youth employment.
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, cultural and leisure activities, and environment, observing that "this demographic challenge leads to the objective impossibility for African countries to simultaneously achieve growth and full employment, despite the growth margins available to the continent compared to other regions of the world."
The second challenge, in the eyes of the analyst, 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 competitiveness, and its corollary, the mismatch between training and employment, all aggravated by intermediary structures lagging behind the changing realities of national labor markets and by an uncontrolled management of openness and liberalization.
Another challenge relates to the cultural nature linked to the society's relationship with work, the main feature of which is to expect everything from the State, family, and society in terms of employment, noted Mr. Guerraoui.
Libe.ma
Published January 17, 2014.
Posted online January 21, 2014.
Morocco has the lowest youth unemployment rate compared to other countries in the Greater Maghreb region, namely Algeria, where this rate far exceeds 50% among young graduates, Professor Driss Guerraoui, a member of the World Young Leaders Summit organizing committee, emphasized Tuesday in Dakar.
Four major challenges characterize the employment situation of young people in Morocco, Africa, and the world, he told MAP, on the sidelines of the participation of a Moroccan delegation representing the youth associative network, at the fourth Pan-African Summit of United Nations Youth Leaders for the achievement of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), whose work continues until the 17th of this month in the Senegalese capital.
The first challenge is demographic in nature and lies in "the growing pressure of the working-age population looking for a first job, disproportionate to the job creation possibilities of the various sectors of activity of our national economies," explained Mr. Guerraoui, who was asked during this Summit to present the Moroccan experience and its performance in combating unemployment and promoting youth employment.
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, cultural and leisure activities, and environment, observing that "this demographic challenge leads to the objective impossibility for African countries to simultaneously achieve growth and full employment, despite the growth margins available to the continent compared to other regions of the world."
The second challenge, in the eyes of the analyst, 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 competitiveness, and its corollary, the mismatch between training and employment, all aggravated by intermediary structures lagging behind the changing realities of national labor markets and by an uncontrolled management of openness and liberalization.
Another challenge relates to the cultural nature linked to the society's relationship with work, the main feature of which is to expect everything from the State, family, and society in terms of employment, noted Mr. Guerraoui.
Libe.ma
Published January 17, 2014.
Posted online January 21, 2014.
