RE: One Change I Would Make. LoH#280.

This is a great post - so much to unpack in it ! As you spotted, reducing unemployment helps solve so many other problems.

I don't think there is a single simple answer, the solution is probably found by a whole host of linked measures. But in an African context, I wonder if a big part of it is localisation; encouraging the formation of new businesses employing local people who can make and sell things that are currently bought in from abroad.

There was a very interesting video I watched recently, which might be a bit of a puff piece, but from the checking I did seems to be correct. It shows what doing things locally can do, although it requires a lot of lateral thinking and a willingness to break the established order -