Nigeria, July 12 -- West Africa's burgeoning youth population offers a strategic workforce which can be harnessed for employment and economic growth, despite a COVID-19 pandemic that is devastating the continent and global economies, the African Development Bank said in its regional economic outlook report.

The virtual launch of the report on July 3 was jointly hosted by the Bank's Regional Development and Business Delivery Office for West Africa, the Nigeria Country Office and the Country Economics Department. The report was officially launched by Ghana's Minister of Finance, Ken Ofori-Atta, in the presence of other ministers of finance from the region, including Nigeria's Federal Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zaina...