Africa has to innovate if the continent is to create sufficient decent jobs for its growing youthful population, Economic Commission for Africa’s (ECA) Executive Secretary, Vera Songwe, said Tuesday. “The question around jobs and economic transformation is one that almost every African leader is worrying about,” she said, adding immediate action on all fronts was imperative to address the continent’s jobs challenge in a structural way. That is why it is imperative that we are having this discussion of creating jobs on the continent,” Ms. Songwe added. “As digitalization and trade create new opportunities for economic transformation through jobs, it will be important for policy makers to recalibrate policies towards strengthening human capital. He said tackling the jobs challenge requires economic transformation.

Source: Ethiopian News March 05, 2019 18:56 UTC