Tanzania, Aug. 12 -- Dar es Salaam. Tanzania is producing more educated, skilled and digitally connected young people than ever before, but the country now faces a harder question: can its economy create enough productive opportunities for them?

The question is central to this year's International Youth Day, marked globally on August 12 under the theme "Different Contexts, Common Aspirations."

The theme captures a reality shared by young people across countries. Despite differences in culture, income and opportunity, they want quality education, decent work, economic independence and a meaningful stake in their societies.

For Tanzania, however, the challenge goes beyond the conventional definition of unemployment.

The country has reco...