Youth unemployment remains one of our greatest challenges.

The youth unemployment rate in Greece does not mean that close to two thirds of young Greeks are unemployed.

It is gratifying to note that the international community is committed to solving the problem of youth unemployment in the world.

Unemployment rates for females are higher than those for males, and youth unemployment is greater than that of adults.

The sharp increase in youth unemployment (38 million young people half of the world's jobless youth) and the implications of the tsunami disaster represent new development challenges for the region.

As one positive response to addressing youth unemployment at home, we are pleased to be one of the latest countries to join the Youth Employment Network as a lead country.

However, if Governments employ specific programmes to promote youth employment and entrepreneurship at the national level, we will succeed in significantly reducing youth unemployment.

The success of social entrepreneurship, which applies a business approach to a social concern, is identified as one underutilized solution for addressing youth unemployment.

BRUSSELS European policymakers have decided that they must be seen to be doing something about youth unemployment.

The Council reaffirms the urgency of finding lasting solutions to the problem of youth unemployment in order to prevent the recruitment of such youth by illegal armed groups.

In this connection, the Council requests the Secretary General to include in his next progress report practical recommendations on how best to tackle the problem of youth unemployment.

Initiatives to address youth unemployment include tax incentives for companies to hire youth, financial assistance for self employment, job search centres, voluntary service programmes and training courses.

His Government, for example, concerned at the growing youth unemployment rate, was implementing programmes to provide high quality jobs to help young people develop skills and acquire experiences that would benefit others.

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But when I was here, a lot of my fellow teenagers were in a very different situation, leaving school at a time then of rapidly growing youth unemployment, and essentially hitting a brick wall in terms of their opportunities.

Europe s Youth Unemployment Non Problem

Indeed, this indicator paints a somewhat less alarming picture than that created by the headline youth unemployment rate of more than 50 in Spain, or even the 62.5 rate recently reached in Greece.

Youth unemployment constituted a particular challenge and should be a focus of the 10 year review of the World Programme of Action for Youth to the Year 2000 and Beyond.

Not even the obvious failures of the French social model in today s environment mass unemployment (reaching 25 among the young), huge public deficits, the blockage of social mobility have diminished its public prestige.

The Government should take full advantage of the opportunity that the Consultative Group meeting in June provides to outline a programme of action in key areas such as reform, institutional capacity building, addressing youth unemployment and combating corruption.

We do not know if the official data, which report roughly 30 youth unemployment, are correct, but it is clear that these economies were incapable of absorbing the demographic wave of the last decades. Recent growth rates 5 6 annually in Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Morocco look strong, but they are less impressive in light of ten years of 2.5 annual growth in the working age population.

And the coal companies just move on after the mountain was emptied, leaving even more unemployment in their wake.

And South Africa suffers from a shockingly high level of unemployment.

Longer term strategies to address the problems of unemployed youth and regional disarmament, demobilization and reintegration remain challenges to effective reintegration, socio economic recovery and political stability, including conflict prevention.

We need not tolerate 9 unemployment as the new normal.

Another serious challenge to the process are the problems of Kosovo's economy, accompanied by high unemployment rates.

If most people still work a 40 hour week, a substantial and growing minority have had unwanted leisure thrust upon them in the form of unemployment, under employment, and forced withdrawal from the labor market.

The US economy is still limping along with very slow growth and a high rate of unemployment.

For nothing converts cyclical unemployment into structural unemployment more certainly than prolonged unemployment.

One of them, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, and idle gluttons.

One of themselves, even a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians are alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.

Full employment, in macroeconomics, is the level of employment rates where there is no cyclical or deficient demand unemployment.

Thus, monetary authorities should simply focus on price stability by targeting the rate of unemployment at which inflation does not increase, referred to as the non accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU).

In other words, there can never be involuntary, or unwanted, unemployment.

Spain, with its 20 unemployment rate and exploding budget deficit, sees in Greece an image of its own future.

When Florida s workers become unemployed, they get unemployment checks from Washington, DC.

I tell you that every idle word that men speak, they will give account of it in the day of judgment.

But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.

The choice would then be between limitless technology driven unemployment and sharing out the work that needed to be done.

Arab women have a higher unemployment rate in the work force relative to both religious and secular Jewish women.

Economic adjustments and the development of market relations in the country have resulted in unemployment and tough competition on the labour market, which is gender biased.

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Yet US economic growth remains sluggish, and is accompanied by stubbornly high unemployment. QE has been blamed for everything from asset price bubbles to food riots to impetigo.

China would not only lose the value of its dollar reserves, but would suffer major unemployment.