Poverty and unemployment remained high in Botswana. The shortcomings of the labor market policies are responsible for a … high unemployment rate. This selected issues paper sheds considerable light on ways that Botswana can enhance inclusive … growth and reduce the high level of structural unemployment. Botswana was identified as having been able to sustain the …

This Selected Issues paper analyzes unemployment and education in Namibia. Using the Afrobarometer Project survey data …, and unemployment. The paper finds that unemployment probabilities depend on the level of education. The paper also …

execution remains paramount. Improvement in dealing with nonperforming loans and preventing a rise in structural unemployment is …

concerns. A bold strengthening of labor market reforms is needed to substantially reduce unacceptably high unemployment …

sector and public spending, and vulnerability to a prolonged decline in the oil price, as well as high unemployment pose …