{"id":156646,"date":"2015-10-02T12:30:54","date_gmt":"2015-10-02T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=156646"},"modified":"2015-10-02T14:25:43","modified_gmt":"2015-10-02T14:25:43","slug":"govt-declares-growing-unemployment-rate-a-national-security-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/govt-declares-growing-unemployment-rate-a-national-security-threat\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt declares growing unemployment rate a national security threat"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of employment and labour relations has described the growing unemployment situation in the country as a crisis and a national security threat.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”NxQlPQ3VsGwhRisnBeUyJzKxNb91CmxM”]Unemployment Rate in Ghana averaged 8.82 percent from 2001 until 2013, reaching an all time high of 12.9 percent in 2005 according to figures from the Ghana Statistical Service.<\/p>\n
“We are in a crisis, a crisis of growing unemployment in our country , a crisis which is informed by continuing gaps in skills development and a crisis that we are not taking urgent steps to address.<\/p>\n
But for us in Ghana we don’t want an Arab spring”, Minister of employment and labour relations Haruna Iddrissu stressed.<\/p>\n
Delivering the key note address at the Intra-Africa Talent Mobility Partnership\/Labour Market Information Workshop, the Labour Minister called for partnership between government and the private sector to address the situation.<\/p>\n
“To avoid an Arab spring will require that both the public and private sector together with our friendly donors see the growing unemployment in the country as a national security threat and crisis which need to be address and addressed head on and sufficiently in time”, he further stated.<\/p>\n
The Ministry is also calling on donor partners to assist the country develop the national labour market information system to help accelerate Ghana’s developmental agenda.<\/p>\n
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By:\u00a0 Rabiu Alhassan\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Ministry of employment and labour relations has described the growing unemployment situation in the country as a crisis and a national security threat. [contextly_sidebar id=”NxQlPQ3VsGwhRisnBeUyJzKxNb91CmxM”]Unemployment Rate in Ghana averaged 8.82 percent from 2001 until 2013, reaching an all time high of 12.9 percent in 2005 according to figures from the Ghana Statistical Service. “We […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":16666,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[21,4],"yoast_head":"\n