5,000 jobs for 500,000 applicants shows Ghana’s deep unemployment crisis — Prof Dzanku

A development economist, Fred Dzanku, has described the intense competition for security service jobs in Ghana as a reflection of structural weaknesses in the economy rather than just a recruitment issue.


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