EA govts urged to devise new ways of getting youth into the job market
Working on a vegetable farm. Youth feel manual agriculture is hard work and less paying. PHOTO | FILE |
About 80 per cent of East Africa’s population is producing less than half of the GDP, and economists say region’s governments need to devise more innovative ways of providing employment for the youth.
Agriculture remains the biggest employer in the region, but it does not contribute much to GDP — 44 per cent in Tanzania and Burundi while in Uganda and Kenya it is 26 and 24 per cent respectively.
