Bad policies contribute to youth unemployment

While various arguments have been advanced to explain rising unemployment figures, bad policies by the government have been identified as the major catalyst.

Analysing Covid-19, informal sector and unemployment on the recent Stanbic Bank Quarterly Economic Review, Dr. Onkokame Mothobi of the Department of Economics at the University of Botswana said the current evidence shows that youth unemployment is the outcome of bad policies.

“Several researchers have previously attributed the high unemployment among the youth to economy failure to generate jobs while some have argued that the youth...