How is the Gabonese government dealing with the country’s high unemployment rate, especially the youth unemployment figures?
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Interviews & Viewpoints | OBG talks to Simon Ntoutoume Emane, Minister of Labour, Work and Vocational Training from The Report: Gabon 2014
Articles & Analysis | Universal health insurance is being rolled out from The Report: Gabon 2014
As it is getting closer to realising its goal of universal health care, Gabon is focusing on decentralising national health services in an effort to make governance more effective at the local level. The country is now investing in infrastructure, although a number of challenges, such as a shortage of trained staff and the prevalence of both communicable and non-...
Chapter | Health & Education from The Report: Gabon 2014
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Covering the 2011-15 period, the National Health Strategy was launched in 2010 and aims to accelerate sector reforms by improving the overall governance of health care, reducing infant and maternal mortality, introducing free maternal health care and investing in infrastructure, especially hospitals.
The country has been rolling out its universal health care system...
With just 1.63m people, Gabon is the second-smallest member of the six-country Central African Economic and Monetary Community in terms of population, after Equatorial Guinea. However, the country’s well-developed hydrocarbons sector has made Gabon the second-largest economy in the sub-region.
The only monarchy in North Africa, Morocco has one of the more diversified GDP mixes in the region, and the mainstays of the economy include agriculture, tourism, and the textiles industry; higher-end manufacturing, IT and communications, and outsourcing are also all becoming increasingly important. The past few years have seen some significant changes, yet the kingdom has remained stable, even amidst the broader regional turmoil.
Plans to increase the production and distribution of generic drugs in South Africa are gathering pace, paving the way for the government to push ahead with the phased rollout of its National Health Insurance (NHI) scheme.