Hard labour Crisis threatens manpower development
Amid the slow recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, and the threatening conflict in Ukraine, the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) director of the Africa department, Abebe Aemro Selassie, has suggested that labour shortages globally could be the next big threat to economic growth if the continent is not supported in its recovery efforts.
In an interview reported by the UK-based Guardian newspaper this week, Selassie was quoted as saying: “In 10 years, one out of every two individuals entering into the global labour force will come from sub-Saharan Africa – the very children whose education the pandemic has disrupted”. He also added that “The human capital we need to motor the global economy is not getting the attention it needs. It’s a massive collective failure”.
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