unemployment
Scholars protest to demand university jobs
Egypt
September 26, 2012
Scholars protest to demand university jobs
Dozens of citizens with Master’s degrees and PhD’s demonstrated in front of the Cabinet Wednesday to demand jobs at universities…
Choosy Omanis add to government’s unemployment headache
World
September 16, 2012
Choosy Omanis add to government’s unemployment headache
Rushing out of a bank door, Harith Mohsin smiled as he clutched a paper approving a US$50,000 state loan to…
Lessons from Iraq
Opinion
September 1, 2012
Lessons from Iraq
It is almost 10 years since the fall of the authoritarian regime of Saddam Hussein and his Baath Party. What…
Egypt and World Bank sign US$200 million loan aimed at creating quarter million jobs
Business
August 14, 2012
Egypt and World Bank sign US$200 million loan aimed at creating quarter million jobs
Egyptian Cabinet ministers and World Bank officials have signed off on a US$200 million project aimed at creating 250,000 jobs…
Unemployment surges to 3.3 million, statistics agency says
Egypt
August 14, 2012
Unemployment surges to 3.3 million, statistics agency says
Unemployment rates have risen to 12.6 percent, or 3.3 million people, during the second quarter of this year, the Central…
Finance minister: Negotiations with IMF resumed for $3.2 billion loan
Egypt
August 5, 2012
Finance minister: Negotiations with IMF resumed for $3.2 billion loan
The government is in contact with the International Money Fund to resume negotiations on a US$3.2 billion loan to Egypt,…
Southwest Tunisian town’s outrage over unemployment
World
April 21, 2012
Southwest Tunisian town’s outrage over unemployment
Southwest Tunisia has some of the world's richest phosphate deposits, but a recent series of violent protests by jobless residents…
Permanent appointment of temporary laborers costs LE3 billion, says finance minister
Business
March 29, 2012
Permanent appointment of temporary laborers costs LE3 billion, says finance minister
Finance Minister Momtaz al-Saeed told Parliament’s Budget and Planning Committee on Thursday that devising permanent contracts for 400,000 temporary workers…
Argument between minister, MPs disrupts parliamentary discussion of unemployment
Egypt
February 19, 2012
Argument between minister, MPs disrupts parliamentary discussion of unemployment
The evening session of the People’s Assembly Sunday was brought to a halt when MPs shouted at Supply and Social…
Egypt’s unemployment rate rises to 12.4%
Business
February 18, 2012
Egypt’s unemployment rate rises to 12.4%
Egypt's fourth quarter unemployment rate rose by two percentage points from the previous quarter, the government’s statistics office said on…