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Youth Empowerment as A Tool for Socio-Economic Changes in Nigeria (A Case Study of Katsina Youth Craft Village) |
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PP: 19-27 |
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doi:10.18576/ijye/050103
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Shamsu Abubakar,
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Abstract |
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| The level of national development in any given country is largely dependent on the extent to which the enormous potentials of its youth are harnessed and utilized by the government to promote and sustain economic growth and social progress. In Nigeria, widespread unemployment has constrained the efforts of the youth to contribute meaningfully to national development. Using descriptive analysis drawn, majorly from secondary data, the paper established that widespread unemployment and poverty in Nigeria has not only induced youth disempowerment, but also created conditions that predispose the youth to deviant behaviours which hinder economic growth, political stability, harmonious social cohesion, and overall national development. It is recommended that if Nigeria is to join the league of the 20 strongest economies in the world by the year 2020, the potentials of the Nigerian youth as the locomotive of national development must be properly harnessed and utilized by eliminating the obstacles that hinder people from transforming their physical, biological and socio-economic environment for their individual fulfilment and for the benefit of society at large1.
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