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Youth Skills

Rural youth seek greener pastures in the city, but farming could get hot

Even on the farm, it pays to be young, but every year, young people are "escaping" their hometown rural communities to seek the "greener pastures" of city life. Meanwhile, global buyers of commodities such as coffee and cocoa beans worry about the aging farming workforce.

Infographic by Hilton Worldwide and IYF.

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Hilton's new hospitality: A jobs plan for global youth

Hilton Worldwide and the International Youth Foundation are combining forces to outline a strategy for creating 73 million youth jobs in the next 10 years.

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Quotable: Coca Cola CEO on cracking the code for growth

The key to solving the employment issues and, better still, the key to cracking the code for growth—because growth will bring employment to the world—will be generating new models, new models about business opportunities.

The agricultural sector accounts for a significant portion of Nigeria's GDP, but youth don't find it an attractive job. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nationalarchives/5418217343/">The National Archives UK (Flickr)</a>

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Waiting for a white-collar job: a sure way to extend unemployment in Nigeria

The Kwara state government in Nigeria is promoting traditional vocations in an effort
to change young minds uninterested in any position outside the glamorous white-collar
realm.

In Kenya, young people open small businesses to improve their communities such as this tea nursery and mushroom farm. Photo: <a href="http://www.mercycorps.org/photoessay/2012accomplishments#photo-10">Salma Bahramy/Mercy Corps</a>

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Youth-led programs: A fresh perspective to solve youth unemployment

A new set of youth employment programs is built on the proposition that the best people to design such programs are young people themselves.

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Infographic: 3 ways post-secondary schooling fails young workers

Global education has left many youth without the skills they need to secure jobs.

World Inequality Database on Education: Haiti Data <a href="http://www.education-inequalities.org/">visualized</a> helps program designers know who to target.

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Who needs education most? A new data source visualizes it

In the race to be qualified for good jobs the starting line is jagged-some youth start further ahead than others. The best programs use data to smooth the line out.

Photo: Thatcher Cook/Mercy Corps

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Social Enterprise

Interview: Healthy food carts for kids get a boost from a healthy global partnership in Indonesia

This article was republished by The Christian Science Monitor.

The possibility for a strong entrepreneurial market is great in Pakistan. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/zerega/4406977310/sizes/m/in/photostream/"> zerega (flickr)</a>

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Pakistan has every ingredient for growth … except entrepreneurship

Pakistan is at the top of South Asian economies, but by underproducing a crucial product, young entrepreneurs, it's stymied from reaching new heights.

Companies are working to empower in the tech sector. Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/unwomenarabstates/7245942414/sizes/m/in/photostream/”> UN Women Arab States (Flickr)</a>

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Geekery for all: Google chips $6m to youth tech empowerment

With the iLab educating in Liberia and the Switchboard mobilizing health across Africa, Google is working on global technology empowerment.

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Four sensible ideas for helping African youth gain meaningful employment

Following a new movement to increase youth employment, the African Economic Outlook (AEO) published a

Youth Spark works to support youth education, especially in the tech sector. Photo: <a href=”http://www.microsoft.com/about/corporatecitizenship/en-us/youthspark/youthsparkhub/”> Youth Spark (Microsoft)</a>

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Microsoft's new core philanthropy: Training kids to make software

Microsoft is rethinking its charity strategies to spread the spark of high-tech education—and maybe to train its own future employees.

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Social Gaming 101: How digital fun is driving change

From world hunger to peace to economic development, a new tool is making a difference: video games.

A young women working the fields in Egypt Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfamnovib/6257022866/sizes/m/in/photostream/”> oxfamnovib (Flickr)</a>.

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Financial Inclusion

A small step for science, a giant leap for unemployed youth

As the youth unemployment rate closes in on 25 percent in the Middle East, young people are looking for jobs, and governments are looking for innovative ways to create them.

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400 heads are better than one: Conference addresses linking youth to rural markets

As the global youth unemployment crisis continues to make headlines, the annual Global Youth Economic Opportunities Conference makes its way to Washington, D.C.

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