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PLENARY 2

The Future of Work in Africa- Preparing Emerging Leaders

The structural transformation and continent offering human and natural

progress in terms of sustainable de- resources that have the potential to

velopment have been limited in Africa. yield inclusive growth and wipe out

The growth process has neither been poverty in the region, enabling Afri-
inclusive nor equitable. It has also not cans across the continent to live

been transformational enough to re- healthier and more prosperous lives.

spond to challenges ushered by exter- With the world’s largest free trade

nal and internal economic shocks, area and a 1.2 billion-person market,

high unemployment rates, rapid ur- the continent is creating an entirely
banization, and changing demograph- new development path, harnessing

ic patterns largely characterized by a the potential of its resources and

youth bulge. Africa is home to more people. It is the responsibility of all
than 1 billion people, and almost 60% sectors to collaborate on strategies

of the population in 2019 is under the that can surmount the challenge of

age of 25, making Africa the world’s poverty, inequality, and unemploy-

youngest continent. Africa is a diverse ment.

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