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Skills Development in Africa: How Wide is the Skills Gap?

Transformify

Reaching out to new markets and opportunities requires skills, experience, and networks that are usually developed by those who have studied abroad. With an unemployment rate of 11.20%, Algeria faces many challenges with regard to the creation of jobs. Still, the unemployment rate is 7.8%, times higher than that of the Seychelles.

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[Review] The Rise Of The New East

YoungUpstarts

By now, many would know that China is expanding aggressively to West Asian and North African countries like Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan, Algeria, Libya and Egypt. With consumer demand booming in inland Asian cities, however, road, rail and air transport networks will take on greater prominence over sea transport.