Unemployment in South Africa
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Unemployment is a universal problem with which the political leadership of almost every country has to wrestle. Even the United States of America which has emerged as the dominant economy of the global village, is forced to invest considerable resources in job creation and economic development programmes aimed at reducing institutional unemployment. This matter has become so significant in the global economy that the guardian of the global economic system, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund relies on the institutional unemployment figures as the indices of the socio-economic wellbeing of countries.
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