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An investor looks up at screens displaying stock information at the Dubai Financial Market, June 17, 2013 (REUTERS/Jumana El Heloueh)

Opinion: The Middle East needs the private sector to spur growth

by Min Zhu | Dec 2, 2013 | Opinion

Growth is not fast enough across the Middle East to deliver the jobs and rising incomes desired by the population. Unemployment is chronically high and rising. The number of people without jobs has increased by more than 1 million since 2010, with one in four young...

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Arab Labor Organization chairman Ahmad Luqman (R) with Saudi labor minister Adil Faqih speaking at a press conference in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, on Sunday, November 3, 2013. (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Arab Labor Organization chief discusses Arab world unemployment

by Shuja Al-Baqmi | Nov 4, 2013 | Business

Riyadh, Asharq Al-Awsat—The chairman of the Arab Labor Organization, Ahmad Luqman, said on Sunday that unemployment in the Arab world has reached around 20 million, adding that the protests in some Arab states increased due to the unprecedented high levels of...

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This file photo dated July 31, 2008, shows Moroccan royal guards blowing the trumpet during an allegiance ceremony outside the royal palace in Fez. (AFP PHOTO/ABDELHAK SENNA)

Spaniards fleeing jobless scourge seek work in Morocco

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Aug 31, 2013 | Uncategorized

Madrid, Bloomberg—Barcelona-born architect Jean-Pierre Monguard Estragues says it’s much easier to find clients and projects in Marrakesh than back home in Spain. “The money isn’t the best pay I’ve ever had but it allows me to live and send...

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British Prime Minister David Cameron, right, and French President Francois Hollande attend a round table meeting at an EU summit in Brussels on Friday, June 28, 2013. (AP Photo/Yves Herman, Pool)

EU leaders win breakthrough on budget deal

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Jun 28, 2013 | Business

Brussels, AP— European Union leaders reached an outline deal Friday on the 27-country bloc’s EUR 960 billion (USD 1.3 trillion) seven-year budget, overcoming a British–French dispute to sign off on the agreement. British prime minister David Cameron had held out...

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Tunisian employment minister hopeful despite political instability

by Monji Saidani | Jun 26, 2013 | Business

Tunis, Asharq Al-Awsat—Tunisian minister of vocational training and employment Naoufel Jammali has revealed that the rate of unemployment in his country has decreased from 18.9 percent to 16.5 percent, adding that Tunisia had managed to get 200,000 citizens back to...