التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: |
Striving for Better Jobs : The Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa Region |
المؤلفون: |
Angel-Urdinola, Roberta Gatti Diego F.; Silva, Joana; Bodor, Andras |
المصدر: |
2012 |
الناشر: |
Washington, DC: World Bank |
اللغة: |
English |
نوع الوثيقة: |
Elektronische Ressource im Fernzugriff |
Manifestation: |
Monographie [unabhängig ob Stück einer Reihe] |
مستخلص: |
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 |
رقم الأكسشن: |
EDSZBW797567933 |
قاعدة البيانات: |
ECONIS |