INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS Middle-East time bomb: youth unemployment

With 30 per cent of their populations under the age of 30 and 5 million young people with high literacy rates entering their labour markets annually, the biggest problem facing North-African and Middle-Eastern nations is youth unemployment.   From Iran to Morocco, leaders of all religious sects and political systems are struggling to find solutions to the region’s unemployed youth. Rapid population growth followed major investments in health care, reducing the infant mortality rates in countries where large families have been the norm. Egypt’s population doubled in the past 30 years to 95 million. Following major investment in education since…