Provisional summary of the hundred and third Meeting

Abstract

Employment in Africa was causing considerable concern to the international trade union movement. The problem could not be solved merely by establishing new industries, attracting investment capital and expanding national output. In spite of the rapid economic growth apparent in, for example, East and Central Africa, employment figures in that area were no higher than they had been ten years ago, and were in some oases lower. The development was an ominous one. Differences between the higher and lower income groups were continually widening, and the unemployment problem^ particularly among the younger age groups, was being steadily aggravated. If that trend were not halted, social and political harmony in Africa would be jeopardized.