Misdistribution of the fruits of development, coupled with high levels of unemployment, illiteracy and poverty caused the tension between governments and societies that led to the Arab Spring, Qatari Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad Ben Jassim Ben Jabr Al Thani said Saturday.
Addressing participants at the World Economic Forum’s Special Meeting on Economic Growth and Job Creation in the Arab World, held on the shores of the Dead Sea, Sheikh Hamad underlined the importance of understanding the causes and motivations that triggered the recent developments in the Arab world and to consider their subsequent repercussions in order to address them.
“The aspirations towards social justice and human dignity sought by Arab peoples imply the provision of the basic prerequisites for the realisation of that objective,” he said at the event, attended by more than 1,000 participants from around 50 countries.
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