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Answer to youth unemployment? Making the formal informal

Across Africa, the shift from rural to urban-based economies is creating more opportunities for the youth.

Recent research from the McKinsey Global Institute estimates Africa has more than 500 million people of working age (15 to 65 years). The institute predicts that by 2040, Africa will be home to one in five of the planet’s young people, and will have the world’s largest working-age population.

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