Sunday 3 June 2012

United approach the key to Middle East employment - The National

The Middle East faces a huge challenge this decade in providing meaningful jobs for a surging number of young people, Chadi Moujaes, Samer Bohsali, Karim Abdallah write.

The Middle East is facing a huge employment challenge.

With more than half of the region's population under 25 years of age, a staggering 75 million jobs will have to be created by 2020 just to keep pace with demographic growth. Essentially, the Middle East has less than 10 years to generate 40 per cent more jobs than exist today - an enormous feat if governments continue to use their current approaches.

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