It is not surprising young people are worried. Half the world's three billion people who live on less than $2 a day are under the age of 24. In many countries, youth unemployment rates are much higher than average.
And with an increasingly youthful population in many parts of the developing world, and a growing number of youth-led households - in some cases because HIV/Aids has claimed the lives of family members - this problem is not going to go away.
Y Care International, the overseas development agency of the YMCA movement, argues that young people must have appropriate training opportunities and the chance to earn their own living if they are to make the transition from childhood to independent adulthood.
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