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Youth employment and entrepreneurial skills development in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of Ghana

Ghana Journal of Development Studies

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Title Youth employment and entrepreneurial skills development in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District of Ghana
 
Creator Enu-Kwesi, F
 
Subject Entrepreneurial skills, education and training, youth employment, micro-enterprise development, community development
 
Description In order for the people of a country or district to achieve their individual aspirations and collectively contribute toward development they need to be entrepreneurial. This requires some form of training and education in order to develop the relevant skills, knowledge and attitudes requisite for meaningful employment. Using descriptive statistics, this paper examines the links between unemployment situation and youth enterprise in the Ajumako-Enyan-Essiam District (AEED) in the Central Region, one of the four poorest administrative regions of Ghana. It found that majority of the youth had at most secondary education, and were unemployed, under-employed or self-employed in informal micro-enterprises. Though entrepreneurial opportunities existed in the District, the youth were adequately involved in the requisite entrepreneurship training programmes that would enable them to take advantage of the existing opportunities in order to reduce youth unemployment or under-employment. It concludes that though the youth have entrepreneurial potentials, their low educational attainment has been a challenge to training. It has therefore been suggested that the District Assembly encourages training and educational institutions that incorporate entrepreneurship in their curriculum in order to provide trainees with the needed knowledge, skills and competencies for employment.KEY WORDS: Entrepreneurial skills, education and training, youth employment, micro-enterprise development, community development
 
Publisher Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies
 
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Date 2013-06-24
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Peer-reviewed Article
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjds/article/view/89915
10.4314/gjds.v9i1.6
 
Source Ghana Journal of Development Studies; Vol 9, No 1 (2012); 74-87
0855-6768
 
Language eng
 
Relation http://www.ajol.info/index.php/gjds/article/view/89915/79368
 
Rights Faculty of Integrated Development Studies, University for Development Studies, Ghana