YOUTH UNEMPLOYMENT AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING IN NIGERIA/GAMBIA: THE ROLE OF HUMAN SECURITY PROVISIONING
Authors:
KEMISOLA OSUNDINA
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Abstract
This paper investigated the association between unemployment and human security
provisioning using ordinary least square estimator of regression analysis. Unemployment was
measured using unemployment rate while human security provisioning was measured by; food
security, purchasing power parity and poverty rate. This study adopted a comparative survey
research design. Both primary and Secondary data were used. The outcomes of the study show
that Food security had an inverse relationship with youth unemployment in the Gambia while
Purchasing power parity had a significant effect on unemployment rate in Nigeria. In both
countries, there is a high positive association between youth unemployment and human security
provisioning. Moreover, the study found empirically that the key factor responsible for youth
vulnerability is lack of subsistence occasioned by unemployment. Therefore, it has become more
pertinent that the government of Nigeria and the Gambia developed a pragmatic approach in
reducing youth unemployment as a strategy for reducing the incidence of human trafficking.