Sep 152013
IN THE PHILIPPINES, youth unemployment is becoming a major concern. Unemployment rose to 7.3% in July from 7% in the same month in 2012. Last week, the National Statistics Office (NSO) reported that although the local economy generated 620,000 new jobs, over three million of the more than 41-million-strong labor force remain jobless. Included in the three million unemployed are youth workers, or those who are at least 15 years old and looking for work.