He said little had been done to broadly develop programmes and diverse strategies to reduce poverty, particularly entrepreneurship development programmes, to accelerate industrial development.
Towards that end, he proposed that the government appointed a committee which should engage in research programmes and consider local approaches for the disadvantaged to promote growth and create employment opportunities and skills training at all levels.
Mr Youri, also an accountant, made these proposals in his book titled “Ideas for debates by Ghanaians for a development policy and programme, poverty reduction strategy and job creation from the bottom up.”
The 88-page book, which was launched Monday, proposes, and analyses basic but important concepts and strategies for job creation and poverty reduction.
He said the interventions were even more challenging today due to the quickened pace of change in the economy, adding that not only must the programmes assist clients in becoming viable economically, but must help develop the flexibility and skills base needed to adopt unpredictable change.
With that mindset, he encouraged development programme practitioners to redefine their efforts and to openly express their experience base options regarding broader strategies, including areas bordering on entrepreneurship, job training and placement, job creation and retention.
He applauded the author for his contribution in attempting to make policy proposals in remedying the employment gaps in the country as unemployment was vast and required a multi-faceted approach with a collective effort to deal with it.
“The title of the book is predicated on the idea that no one person can do it all. The intellectual class alone cannot solve the degree of unemployment and poverty in the country,” he said.
Mr Samuel Osei-Frempong, News Editor, Ghana News Agency, in a review of the book, said, Ghana’s development path had been rough, with some recurrent detours, and the country had abandoned some ideas and even resorted to other worthless ventures.
As a nation, he said “we are reminded by Trenchard Domegure Youri to step back and see if the path to national development is straight.”
“He concludes the book by proposing a Technocracy for Ghana. Surprisingly, he does not propose an autocracy but rather calls for a referendum on the issue,” the News Editor added.