POLI1042 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Human Rights Watch, Muammar Gaddafi, Liberal Democracy
20 Jun 2016
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Root causes of the arab spring: young population. A. 3. children reaching maturity having children non normal population growth rate. 2/3 of the pop are under the age of 30 in the middle east. A. 3. b) some countries are even higher than that. A. 4. education system, healthcare facilities all need to be taken care of for young peo- ple. A. 4. a) elder generations do not have the pensions necessary to retire and the old people are keeping the young form getting jobs. Saudi arabia 100,000 enter the workforce every year and only 30,000 are generate. 15% of the population throughout the middle east is unemployed. 6% global average reality in middle east is more like 20-25% These statistics include any kind of job (including part time or temporary) (a. 1. d. 1) therefore a lot is underemployment. Arab spring was all about young people expecting to live the life they had imag- ined and not what came along at all: many jobs are state employment.
