Arab world | Unemployment ‘at least 16 pct’ after uprisings

Unemployment in the Arab World will be at least 16 per cent in the wake of last year’s uprisings, according to a top official in the Arab Labor Organization (ALO).

Mohamed Sherif Dawood was speaking at the opening session of a two-day conference on labour issues that started in Cairo on Wednesday, titled ‘Employment for Stability and Social and Economic Improvement in North Africa’.

“There are many reasons causing us to revise our previous estimates such as the economic crisis and social mobility. At the same time, the numbers entering the labour market each year continue to build,” Dawood told Ahram Online.

In 2007, the ALO put the average unemployment rate across the Arab World at 14.5 per cent from a total population of some 340 million — the highest worldwide on a regional basis.

“The Arab countries are still keeping the highest unemployment rate,” Dawood said in his opening remarks.

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