Copycatting the Industrial Heartlands of Asia in Africa RL Vol XIII No 412 MMXIX

Copycatting the Industrial Heartlands of Asia in Africa

Does it work – is there an Alternative Public Policy?

Employment Dynamics in stemming the tide of Youth indignation

Ethiopia – Towards a Cogent Entrepreneurial Public Policy

Respublica Litereria Public Lecture - RL Vol XIII No 412 MMXIX

Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos, PhD

Professor of Public Policy & Sustainable Institutional Reforms

https://addisababa.academia.edu/CostyCostantinos

Abstract

Pundits have asserted time and again that, the widespread incidence of poverty is directly attributable to basic weaknesses of social and political leadership, rules of the game and political institutions. The central hypothesis in entrepreneurial development and employment for human security is that the relative strength of political organisations that determine the rules and institutions of the political game that are installed. It requires a plural set of political organisations, which promote and protect rules of peaceful political participation and competition. Together, institutions (plural organisations plus rules of accountability) ensure control of the state executive. The research enquiry augurs on the following key issues that speak to the challenges stated above and other challenges such as ethnicity that have become symptomatic of the root causes. It aims to uncover the causes of unemployment and underemployment in Ethiopia and point to strategic and policy trajectories the nation should follow to stem the tide of youth violence that is spreading so fast?

Hence, it reviews paradigmatic discourse in employment generation and human security, employment and human security, freedom from fear vs. freedom from want, social capital as a foundation for employment and human security, employment dynamics and social harmony, sustainable livelihoods approach and the gig economy. The discussion hones on the state’s responsibility is priming human qualities, real-time state strategy development, supporting the private sector through economic liberalisation (productive and allocative efficiency), entrepreneurship development, credit and capital markets and mainstreaming entrepreneurial employment. Legal empowerment of the poor seeks to generate new policy recommendations that will reduce poverty through secure, enforceable property and labour rights, within an enabling environment that expands legal business opportunity and access to justice. In this sense, the Ethiopian government must create an inclusive enabling system of rights, obligations and enforcements surrounding the right to property and must lay the foundation for a decent work agenda be advanced, both within the informal and formal economies. Entrepreneurial innovation and creativity in the informal economy must be channelled into the creation of decent jobs within the formal economy. Finally, Ethiopia’s unemployed need to be supported by a private sector that has access to sufficient capital. Indeed, there is no more compelling raison d'être nor a mission-objective so utterly entrenched in the preservation and, even advancement of human-kind, than good governance and leadership that can lead a social league to relate cogently to an epidemic of ignorance and hence under-employment that has spun out of control.

Key words: unemployment, entrepreneurship rights, capital, property rights, access to justice, labour rights

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