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The Kilometre Between the Certificate and the Payroll

Nigeria's 3MTT reports a 99.6 per cent completion rate across 135,000 fellows — a figure measuring whether they finished an assessment, not whether they hold jobs that use the training. The IMF's baseline scenario projects a 0.2 per cent productivity lift for sub-Saharan Africa over the coming decade under current conditions. Until programmes publish cohort-level employment outcomes at six and twelve months, the headline numbers describe ambition, not labour markets.