By Tong Akok Anei Mawien
South Sudan is one of the countries that tops the list of the highest unemployment rates in the world, though with big portion of uneducated population, still the small percentage of the population who has gone inch in education is not employed throughout the country with many sectors.
In some well-Focused Countries, the development of human labor through education into labor market is equated with pensions and attractiveness of many businesses to open up rooms for this labor production.
So, yearly the entrance through employment into the market is made and the exit through pensions and import of businesses is also made to create rooms for fresh and energetic workforce and to keep the equilibrium of labor production with the organizations workforce balanced.
This is done in all private sectors as well as government institutions and that is why there is unemployment benefits in Some Other Countries, this is because if the government fails to create a room for a competing labor, then it has to shoulder that gap because it is the sole reference to the employment tusk.
The exit through pension and the import of businesses is close in South Sudan and we expect to employ thousands of graduates we produce every year, definitely not. If we don’t think twice and make a decision, the likelihood of the case of Tunisia that gave birth to Arab spring is possible, I’m not calling for it but the chances are certain in the near future, recently it was indicated that youth unemployment rates mounted to 77% in South Sudan.
This is a clear alarm that in the near future with the addition of another percentage, the friction within this group will be high and hence will seek an alternative to arrest the situation. We can experience this impact through the increment in the rates of gangs’ robbery and high theft in Juba.
This is due to a lot of unemployed, youth are on the streets. There are aspects that some of our institutions failed to put into account, the control of blue color jobs from Foreigners, control of Small Business and the equality for all; this should be done through empowerment of local business actors in tax lowering and policy support and giving non-technical positions to nationals and not favoring acquaintance or relatives which is the common case in South Sudan.
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