MIDDLE EAST Qatar on Monday launched an initiative to tackle youth unemployment in the Arab world, investing $100m in research and programmes designed to tackle one of the region’s thorniest problems.
Silatech, the body that will co-ordinate the initiative, the brainchild of the emir of Qatar’s wife Sheikha Mozah bint Nasser al Missned, wants to tackle the social marginalisation created by unemployment and a lack of economic opportunities for all in the Arab world. A quarter of the region’s youth is out of work.
