Likewise, the shortage of land and poverty made the lure of the city and industrialization attractive economically to young people in every part of the world and across all cultures. [...] Starting on our world tour, let us go first to Zambia.2 (slide 5) Every year the rural areas of Zambia empty out as the young and fit adults leave the countryside farms in search of waged work in the cities and towns and work in the copper mines. [...] The entry labour pool has dropped by over one-third, and due to the demographic bulge of the baby boomers, there is a similar and significant drop in the 55 – 64 year olds with a further one-third of the labour market predicted to retire. [...] Here we see the depth of the revenues enjoyed and the size of the projected surpluses for this year and the next two years as forecast in the 2007/08 budget. [...] The question is "What is the right balance to create a climate that will (slide 35) reverse the exodus of young people from NL to other greener pastures?" Let us review what we have learned about migration and what has caused it? In addition, what helps to reverse the trend? Migration is in some respects a natural phenomenon of youth seeking greener pastures and the opportunity to diversify the ge.
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