Causes and Solutions for Youth Unemployment in Developing Nations

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Problem Statement.......................................................................................................................3
Research Aim...............................................................................................................................3
Research Questions......................................................................................................................3
Literature Review............................................................................................................................4
Causes of youth unemployment...................................................................................................4
Ways to avoid youth unemployment...........................................................................................6
Proposed Methodology....................................................................................................................8
Types of Research Strategy..........................................................................................................8
Data Collection............................................................................................................................9
Key ethical issues.........................................................................................................................9
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Unemployment among youth is one of the major social issues of the modern global
economy. Any individual within the age group of 15 to 30 years, who have the educational and
physical capability to work, but still not involved any job activities that are paid is termed
unemployed. The youths account for nearly 70% of the total world's population and nearly 90%
of them are living in developing countries (Peacechild.org 2018). The multiple complex causes
are responsible for youth unemployment includes irregular system of education, in flexibility in
the labour market. Lack of technical skills among the youth is also one of the major issues that is
directly responsible for causing higher rate of unemployment.
Currently nearly 73 million youths are registered unemployed, most of them belonging to
the developing nations in the Asian and Africa. It is estimated that within the next ticket 600
million youths are expected to enter the job market. However, only 200 million seems to have
the technical capability to enter the awaiting job market (UN.org 2018). Hence, there will be a
huge gap in the total number of youth who will be directly employed in the service sector.
O’Reilly et al., (2015), have mentioned about the financial and economic crisis being one
of the major single cause of rising number of unemployment among youths in the developing
Nation. The recession during the period of 2009 enhance the existing problem of labour market
along with that of the education system. The qualities of the job sector including the security of
jobs among the young people are also subjects to risk due to the effect of unemployment. There
is also the issue of lack of capital, where youths, who want to start their own business are not
getting proper loan from the assistance of local banks.

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Problem Statement
With the rise in global population, youths of the modern day are at risk of facing higher
level of unemployment. This is considered to be one of the major social issues of modern days.
Research Aim
The current research proposal aims to investigate the cause unemployment among youths
mostly within the developing nations and also suggest proper intervention strategies the can be
implemented for the future.
Research Questions
 What are the major causes for rise in unemployment among youth mostly in the
developing nations?
 How is the problem of unemployment amongst youth directly linked with other social
and economic issues of the nation?
 What are the possible economic and financial strategies that are implemented to deal with
the issue of youth unemployment?
Literature Review
Causes of youth unemployment