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Tag: Employment Conditions

  • The Higher Education Trap

    Morocco’s universities are providing too many graduates for too few jobs, says Martin Rose in an article published on Chatham House’s website.  It is about how the Universities and the higher education trap that is getting increasingly tight for the greater number of Moroccan youth. This situation would not be specific to this country only…

  • Global Inequality is on the Rise at different Countries Rates

    It is manifestly obvious that Global Inequality is on the Rise at different Countries Rates, but how different is today’s situation to that of any time in the past. Is it due to the quasi omnipresence of all the internet networks that allow information to be gathered at a lightning speed as well as at…

  • Saudi banning foreign employment in gold and jewellery shops

    An interesting article of Gulf Business posted on December 4, 2017 on how Saudi Arabia in its multi-facetted program of “Saudization” is getting down to the nitty-gritty of specialized retail business. As if the country does have enough things to worry about these days, this recently included Saudi banning foreign employment in gold and jewellery…

  • Happiness the emotional ingredient lacking the most in the MENA

    Is happiness the emotional ingredient lacking the most in the MENA countries? Or would as acknowledged by many, unhappiness be recognized as one of the main factors that cause emotional volatility in the MENA region whether in past or recent years?  As for the 2 other ingredients as asserted in “emotional intelligence is key in…

  • Money Supply, Exchange Rate and Inflation

    There are dialectical relationships between a country’s monetary supply, exchange rate and inflation that in turn impact on its central bank interest rate determining, thus bearing on the productive sector (growth rate, employment rate, etc.) and on the general purchasing power. As we all know any economic policy ought to, whilst avoiding any monetary illusion,…

  • Saudisation means limiting all expatriates’ employment

    Saudi Arabia unlike all its partners within the GCC and for many in the world would have been a terrible country, were it not for it to have been sitting on one of the world’s largest reserves of fossil oil.  Moreover and, according to western common knowledge, it sponsors a strong feeling-filled version of Islam…