The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)
region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at
least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings
inequality, unemployment, and poverty. The combination of slow
economic growth, population explosion, and decline in labor
productivity led to the reversal of the economic gains achieved
during the economic boom in the 1970s. In contrast to that period,
growth per capita (GDP) in 1980-1991 for Arab countries was -0.2%.
Several indicators point to the extent of the problems faced today
by the region's countries. Although the percentage of poverty
declined for the majority of the regions in the world in 1985-1990,
it has increased in the MENA region.
The purpose of this volume is to address the conditions of
earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty in the MENA region
and the problems associated with these factors; to determine the
state and magnitude of these problems through various country
studies; and to provide solutions to alleviate the negative
conditions facing developing economies, with special emphasis on
the MENA countries.
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