L'Etat, c'est la grande fiction à travers laquelle tout le monde s'efforce de vivre aux dépens de tout le monde. Frédéric Bastiat

samedi 18 février 2006

AFRIQUE DU NORD ET MOYEN-ORIENT

L'Institut MEMRI rappelle que le Moyen-Orient et l'Afrique du Nord connaissent les plus haut taux de chômage au monde:

The Middle East and North Africa [MENA] stands out as the region with the highest rate of unemployment in the world. With an unemployment rate of 13.2 percent, the Middle East is ahead of sub-Saharan Africa, the poorest region in the world, which has the second highest rate of unemployment, 9.7 percent.

Un problème qui ne peut plus être ignoré:
Unemployment is a grave source of hopelessness, and hopelessness drives people to extremes. This was clearly demonstrated in the twentieth century in the rise of Nazism and Fascism. Unemployment has the great potential of being a source of political instability and even violence, and it is to no one's advantage to treat this economic dislocation with equanimity. Klaus Schwab, the president of the World Economic Forum, warned that unemployment in the Middle East was "a time bomb" that would require the creation of 100 million new jobs in the next 10 years to defuse it.