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This synthesis report highlights key employment and labour market challenges in five Middle East and North African countries: Algeria, Jordan, Morocco, Syria and Turkey. It analyses current labour market policies, programmes and institutions with a focus on inclusion...Read More

With a population estimated at around 359 million people, the Arab world is by no means a unified economic entity. Studying the labor market issues in the Arab world should start by acknowledging and incorporating the diversity of socio-economic outcomes within it....Read More

This paper identifies the main causes and gauges the extent of youth unemployment in the Maghreb, critically assesses interventions that have been made to address the problem and proposes options for policy makers. It focuses on youth (defined as individuals aged 15 to...Read More

The present paper is organized in two main sections. The first section discusses experiences with ALMPs in developing, transitioning and developed countries worldwide. The second section provides an overview of selected ALMPs in the countries of the Economic and Social...Read More

In this essay, Kadri argues that the retention of resources and their redeployment within the national economy are indispensable conditions for development and job creation. Employment policies are best set subject to social efficiency criteria distinct from the...Read More

The empirical analysis conducted in this report reveals that job creation is a top priority for the GCC economies in order to absorb the future flows of national labor market entrants and prevent unemployment from exacerbating further.  The GCC economies are creating...Read More

The objective of this paper is to identify core obstacles to labour market nationalization in the Gulf. Saudi Arabia, the most important GCC country, will be the main case study, but its experience will be systematically compared with the labour market situation in the...Read More

The report traces the consequences of the “Arab Spring” for labour markets in the wake of a surge in commodity and energy prices (for oil importers); the recessionary impact on public revenues; increased uncertainty for investors; a rise in unemployment; and greater...Read More

The primary focus of this report is the role that large employers can play in addressing regional unemployment through skills matching and skills development. Large employers, including both state- owned national enterprises and privately owned conglomerates, play a...Read More

This paper takes an exploratory-cum-constructivist approach and argues that closer cooperation and unified policy structures on nationalization are needed across all GCC countries. Read More