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What happens when one half of the world needs jobs... and the other half needs workers

Domain:

socioeconomic
Creator:
Pig
Publisher:
Zenodo
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    Africa and Asia will define the future workforce of the world. Nearly half the global population today is Gen Z and Gen Alpha — with hundreds of millions of young people entering working age across Africa and Asia over the next two decades.   At the same time: •⁠ ⁠youth unemployment remains critically high •⁠ ⁠informal economies are expanding •⁠ ⁠AI is accelerating •⁠ ⁠and traditional job creation is slowing. Meanwhile, many developed nations are facing the opposite problem: declining birth rates, ageing populations, and shrinking working-age labour pools.