{"id":6066,"date":"2019-10-23T08:10:10","date_gmt":"2019-10-23T05:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=6066"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:30:37","slug":"innovative-ways-through-which-young-people-are-tackling-unemployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2019\/10\/23\/innovative-ways-through-which-young-people-are-tackling-unemployment\/","title":{"rendered":"Innovative Ways Through Which Young People Are Tackling Unemployment"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>By&nbsp;Edwin Ashimwe<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Statistics by the National\nInstitute of Statistics of Rwanda for the annual third quarter indicate that, during\nthis year, the unemployment rate has shown a growth trend.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Quarterly comparisons show an\nincreasing trend of unemployment rate from 14.5 per cent in February to 15.5\nper cent in May and 16.0 per cent in August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Numbers also revealed that in\nthe same quarter, youth (16-30 years old) constituted 44.2 percent of the\npopulation in the labour force and this proportion has slightly increased as\ncompared to the previous Quarter of the survey May 2019 (Q2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Regardless of the prevailing\nchallenges however, some youth have taken it upon themselves to address the\nunemployment issue\u2026<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newtimes.co.rw\/business\/innovative-ways-through-which-young-people-are-tackling-unemployment\">Read more&gt;&gt;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By&nbsp;Edwin Ashimwe Statistics by the National Institute of Statistics of Rwanda for the annual third quarter indicate that, during this year, the unemployment rate has shown a growth trend. Quarterly&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":6067,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}