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Creative Insecurity - Institutional Inertia and Youth Potential in the GCC (Hardcover)
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Creative Insecurity - Institutional Inertia and Youth Potential in the GCC (Hardcover)
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The Middle East is experiencing the world's most prominent youth
bulge. Yet many MENA economies' institutional designs, both formal
and informal, favour the power of business elites, systematically
discriminating against young people joining the workforce or
opening businesses, and thus limiting their ability to contribute
to innovation. Large youth populations can be a boon or a curse:
nurtured and integrated, they can jumpstart stratospheric growth;
but if alienated and confined, they can drain a society politically
and economically. The Gulf Cooperation Council countries are no
exception to this perilous dilemma. This book explores the problem
through a new concept, 'creative insecurity': a state's subjection
to an institutional ecosystem that is suppressing opportunities for
innovation--to the extent that it is causing economic and political
vulnerabilities, which in turn threaten national security. Creative
insecurity threatens the longevity of many states today. In this
original, incisive study, Dania Thafer argues that GCC
member-states should make it a national security imperative to cash
in their demographic dividend, by averting the deleterious effects
of ill-disposed elite politics. Investing in an innovation
ecosystem that harnesses the talent of the youth majority will be
crucial for the GCC's successful transition to the post-oil era.
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