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EPISODE · Mar 5, 2018 · 12 MIN

Poor job prospects fuel Mideast discontent

from FT News in Focus

Rising youth unemployment in the Arab world has made it increasingly difficult for the region's autocratic governments to keep a lid on popular discontent. The FT’s Heba Saleh speaks to Ragui Assaad, an Egyptian professor of planning and public affairs at the University of Minnesota, about the root causes of the problem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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