Wednesday, May 13, 2009

The Peninsula: Only Entrepreneurship Can Create Enough Jobs

By Mobin Pandit

DOHA: An incredible 100 million young Arabs will be out looking for jobs by the year 2020, but the prospect of their finding gainful employment looks grim, speakers at a symposium said
here yesterday.

Greater entrepreneurship skills and small and medium enterprises can help ease the problem to a large extent but, sadly, they are conspicuous by their near absence across the Arab world, the experts said.

The symposium on Global Investment was held by the financial services firm Amwal and the panel debating the above issue at a post-lunch session was devoted to ‘Fostering Entrepreneurship and Job Creation in the Middle East’. (more)

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