To reduce structural unemployment in South Africa, the government should ... Select one: a. take steps to reduce population growth. b. raise taxes and increase government spending in the South African economy. c. make education and training in scarce skills freely available to everyone who is willing to improve their skills. d. apply stricter immigration control.
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