Shaky job market slows down region’s economic growth
The report highlights that the continent has the potential to create between 54 million and 72 million more stable, wage-paying jobs in the next eight years, which would help absorb some of the 122 million people expected to join the labour force in the same period.
Simon Ng’ang’a left Kenya in 1996 for the US to pursue his master’s degree in management, and soon landed a plum job as a financial advisor at American Express.
But by 2009, a growing dissatisfaction arising from the global financial crisis found him yearning to come back home.
