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Exploring adolescent opportunities and challenges in securing decent work and the foundations for economic empowerment in Ethiopia
Abstract
Ethiopia has made remarkable development progress over the past two decades: since 2000, the poverty rate has approximately halved, from 46% to 24%, and the primary education completion rate has more than doubled, from 18% to 50%. That said, Ethiopia remains one of the world鈥檚 poorest countries, ranked 174 out of 189 countries on the United Nations (UN) Human Development Index and 40% of gross domestic product (GDP) and 80% of the population still depend on agriculture. In addition, economic growth continues to be outpaced by population growth, meaning that unemployment is a growing concern.
This report synthesises findings from the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme鈥檚 midline data collection to explore patterns in Ethiopian adolescents鈥� economic empowerment. Focusing on similarities and differences between groups of adolescents and youth with different characteristics, we explore how young people鈥檚 access to opportunities for skills building, social protection, age-appropriate decent work, productive assets and financial inclusion allow them to become economically empowered adults.
This work is an output of the Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence (GAGE) programme
Citation
Presler-Marshall, E., Dutton, R., Jones, N., Baird, S., Woldehanna, T., Yadete, W. with Amdeselassie, T., Emirie, G., Gebreyehu, Y., Gezahegne, K., Iyasu A., and Workneh, F. (2021) 鈥榃e suffer to survive鈥�: Exploring adolescent opportunities and challenges in securing decent work and the foundations for economic empowerment in Ethiopia. Report. London: Gender and Adolescence: Global Evidence.