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Full Length Research Paper
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Youth
unemployment: Entrepreneurship development programme as an
intervention mechanism
A. Cyril Awogbenle*1 and K.
Chijioke Iwuamadi2
1Africa
Leadership Forum (ALF), Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria.
2Institute
for Development Studies, University of Nigeria, Enugu Campus, Enugu State, Nigeria.
*Corresponding
author. E-mail:
ayodejicyril@yahoo.com,
iwuamadikc@yahoo.com. Tel:
+234-803-780-1303
Accepted 19 April, 2010 |
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Abstract |
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Within the framework of potential efforts and strategies to
boost employment and job creation for young people,
entrepreneurship is increasingly accepted as an important means
and a valuable additional strategy to create jobs and improve
livelihoods and economic independence of young people.
Regrettably, problems of unemployment as experienced by the
educated youths and even the uneducated but skilled youths have
become more pathetic in many developing economies, despite the
neo-liberal strategies in addressing the issue of enhancing
human capital. The aim of this paper is therefore to examine the
constraints that impede young people in search of non-existing
jobs and the urgent need to orient people of these affected
economies particularly Nigerians on imbibing self-employment and
entrepreneurship through vocational and entrepreneurial
training programmes as a short-term intervention mechanism.
Key words:
Entrepreneurship, unemployment, youth. |
