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Troubling Trend for Qatari Youth
Qatari young people have unprecedented economic opportunities. School is paid for, there is a wide selection of US, Canadian and European...
Kuwaitization 2
I'm now back from Kuwait after spending a fascinating day talking to private sector and public sector folks about the process of...
Localization: Doomed to Fail?
Here's a point that I think I've made before, but may not have seen it so sharply until now. Localization efforts are due to fail. The...
Qatarization and intrinsic versus extrinsic motivation
Young people in Qatar have it pretty good.The starting salary for young Qataris is somewhere in the range of $120,000 per year. And...
Kuwaitization
Spending the day tomorrow talking to a few key stakeholders about the prices of localizing the Kuwaiti labor force. Interested to see...
What is the benefit of Palestinian female education?
As I continue to work on this paper using the SWTS of Palestine by the ILO, I've started to analyze what causes some young people to have...
Israel's land grab in Bethelehem
As I began reading an article about the 1,000 acres of land that Israel has now declared state land in the area of Bethlehem, a wave of...
Inequality of Opportunity in Palestine
One of the hallmarks of post revolutionary Middle Eastern regimes was the focus on egalitarianism. The educational system was designed...
Unemployed Young Palestinians
Five years ago, an analysis of young people's lives in the Middle East was produced by the Brookings Institution. Generation in Waiting...


Personal Safety in the Middle East
As I'm getting ready for another trip to the Middle East, invariably I am asked by someone, "Aren't you worried about going over there?"...
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