{"id":179797,"date":"2024-09-03T04:33:46","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T02:33:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambian-youth-want-the-govt-to-prioritise-management-of-the-economy\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T04:33:46","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T02:33:46","slug":"zambian-youth-want-the-govt-to-prioritise-management-of-the-economy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/zambian-youth-want-the-govt-to-prioritise-management-of-the-economy\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambian Youth Want the Govt to Prioritise Management of the Economy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Majority say country&#8217;s economic condition is bad, but two-thirds expect things to get better in the near future.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">Key findings<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Seven in 10 young Zambians (71%) have secondary or post-secondary education, significantly surpassing older generations.<\/li>\n<li>But they are also more likely to be unemployed: 36% say they are looking for a job, higher than the national average of 30%.<\/li>\n<li>Management of the economy ranks as the most important problem that Zambian youth (aged 18-35 years) want their government to&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409020096.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Majority say country&#8217;s economic condition is bad, but two-thirds expect things to get better in the near future. Key findings Seven in 10 young Zambians (71%) have secondary or post-secondary education, significantly surpassing older generations. But they are also more likely to be unemployed: 36% say they are looking for a job, higher than the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":179798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,5762,4357,7272,257,11956,254,6276,881,4396],"class_list":["post-179797","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-economy","tag-govt","tag-management","tag-news","tag-prioritise","tag-south-africa-today","tag-youth","tag-zambia-news","tag-zambian"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179797"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179797\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179798"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179797"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179797"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}