Striving for Better Jobs : The Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa Region
This quick note provides an overview of the World Bank report striving for better jobs: the challenge of informality in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The report was completed as a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests swept a...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2012
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2011/12/15572235/striving-better-jobs-challenge-informality-middle-east-north-africa-region http://hdl.handle.net/10986/10857 |
| Summary: | This quick note provides an overview of
the World Bank report striving for better jobs: the
challenge of informality in the Middle East and North Africa
(MENA). The report was completed as a revolutionary wave of
demonstrations and protests swept across the Arab world.
Millions of young people were chanting 'dignity'
and 'social justice' in the region, underlining
deep-seated feelings of exclusion and inequality of
opportunities. Demanding democracy, human rights, and better
governance, young Arabs were also striving to realize their
economic aspirations in a region rich in human and physical
capital. However, while there has been economic growth for a
number of years in MENA countries, this has not led to an
adequate number of good jobs and has succeeded, at best, in
generating low-quality, informal jobs. |
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