What are the causes of unemployment in Egypt, and how does unemployment affect the country?
Introduction
Unemployment is an economic indicator marked by the fact that individuals actively seeking for jobs remain unhired or rather connotes to the number or proportion of people in an economic sector who are willing and able to engage in one function or the other to get a reward for their services, but are not able to get a job.
Egypt is an emerging economy that was rapidly growing in the years before the crisis in 2011(Egypt Revolution).
It’s diversified economic activities, geographic location and educated young and broad labor force makes it a high potential economy. While many developed economies around the globe struggle with increasing
…show more content…
Therefore, this makes unemployment among the young graduates in Egypt high.
Causes of unemployment in Egypt
High birth rate in Egypt One of the main problems facing the issue of unemployment in Egypt is high birthrate, particularly during the 1970’s. Egypt is estimated to have 79 million people and according to UNICEF, 31.235 million Egyptians under the age of 18 make up 38 percent of the population (Khalifa, 1991).
Egypt 's population growth rate has reduced from a yearly rate of 2.4 percent in the period from 1970 to 1990 to 1.9 percent but from 1990 till date it has been increasing. In 2008, the fertility rate was 2.86 births per woman, well down from 6.23 and 4.56 births per woman in 1967 and 1990 respectively. Remarkably enough, various types of contraceptive method was used by 60 percent of women (Watch, 2010).
This rising birthrate is creating (and will continue to create) rising stress in the country 's employment growth.
Lack of good
…show more content…
Altogether, those governments are no longer collecting the same amount of income tax from the people as before therefore, forcing the government to borrow money (which defers the costs and impacts of unemployment into the future) or cut back on other spending.
Continuous borrowing to finance the growing deficit has gradually exposed the banking sector to government debt which crowded out private investment because they were making a loss, and resulted in sluggish economic growth that at an average of 2 percent a year which was barely above the population growth of 1.7 percent.
As things stand at present, the country’s macroeconomic picture is not focused on the possible way out of their debt issue, and also lack urgent reform measures. Egypt’s fiscal health could get much worse, as predicted by the IMF and by the country’s own Ministry of Finance ( Dimian,
“Business Corporations are… increasingly attracted by those regions that offer a large and diverse supply of highly skilled talent… large consumer markets; wide array of technical and
Since delaying parenthood was now much easier, both women and men invested much of their time with getting an education, a job and then boosting their income in order to support their future family. With the invention of the Birth Control Pill, these hopes and dreams of many of the women were finally coming
In the early 1900s, women’s health was non-existent. It was not taught in school, it was never spoken about in the media, and many women themselves had no knowledge about reproductive health. During this time it was common to see women with ten, fifteen, even twenty pregnancies throughout their lives. Men and women both were often unaware on how to plan or prevent a pregnancy and birth control was pronounced illegal. Consequently, this was also a period of high childbirth mortality, as well as a time where many women were dying due to self-induced or “back-alley” abortions.
The speech was given to a group of people attending the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control Conference, a conference on the topics of birth control and population control. In front of an audience that praised and disagreed with her ideas, Sanger spoke using many rhetorical devices to guarantee a spark to the senses of every audience member listening. Too many babies wasn’t just a problem for mothers, but for the whole world. Sanger approached the ideas of overpopulation, abortions, women 's choice, and the
According to the same article, “Access to birth control in the U.S. has helped narrow the income inequality gap between men and women by as much as 30 percent during the 1990s alone. The pill has given women greater choice about when to have children, freeing them up to acquire career skills. By 2009 women procured more than half of all U.S. doctoral degrees, compared with 10 percent in 1960 ” (7). Allowing women the option of birth control puts the option to do anything in their hands. Without birth control more women are becoming pregnant and have to start raising a family before they are even
For centuries women were always supposed to just bear their husband’s child, and be nothing more than a mother and wife. This created lots of problems, such as the millions of childbirth related deaths and home abortions. This eventually sparked an initiative in Margaret Sanger. As a result of the death of Margaret Sanger’s mother due to multiple childbirths, Sanger was motivated to finding a prevention of pregnancy that could potentially save lives (Gibbs, Van Pyke and Adams 41). This task, however was not easily achieved.
Before the Gilded Age, transportation of any sort was slow, unreliable, and unavailable. However, with the invention of the assembly line and some invention, mass produced automobiles, subterranean trains, elevated trains and basic airplanes were spread out. Therefore, during the late 19th century, transportation was allowing for extreme expanse of trade and economic capability. One of the most prominent methods of transportation even before this time, railways were experiencing a major change during this time. Though it would eventually cause a stock market crash due to the closure of two major rail businesses, the roads themselves saw considerably more traffic due to a major expansion of the system.
I read the book, “Contraception and Abortion in 19th-Century America” by Janet Farrell Brodie. She teaches history at Claremont Graduate School and is the Program Coordinator at the Claremont Graduate Humanities Center. Brodie’s choice of interests is in the 19th-20th century American history. During this time, many looked up to her, because of her careful research of contraception and abortion information and the practices in the 19th century. Brodie reached an achievement of modifying our sense of reproduction control.
In 1960, the first birth control pill was put on the market. This was the first time a woman’s reproductive health was in her own control. Ever since the 1900’s women have been fighting for the right to their own reproductive rights (“The Fight for Reproductive Rights”). With the upcoming presidential election the right to obtain birth control and other contraceptives for women could be jeopardized, and taken out of the control of the woman. Thus, the history of birth control, the statistics of how it affects today’s society, why women should have the ability to obtain it easily, and how if outlawed it would not only hurt women, but also the economy are all important topics in the women’s rights movement and very relevant in modern day society.
“For every one thousand live births, nearly fourteen infants will die” as a result of “low socioeconomic status, poor nutrition, and lack of access to prenatal care” (Berg 143). Again, a look at the Bush Administration serves as an example of a time where the government failed to improve upon negative circumstances, which mainly affect women. They did little to lower the rates of infant mortality, which hurt mothers and their children everywhere. “A cut of more than six hundred million dollars compromised WIC’s (Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program) ability to subsidize the diets of low-income pregnant women and nursing mothers” (Berg 143).
Because it has such a strong economy, it can be seen as a safe investment for outside countries. The population is guided at a young age to start working on their careers while in primary school. This makes the workforce extremely reliable and highly
Unemployment happens when individuals are without work and effectively looking for work.[1] The unemployment rate is a measure of the pervasiveness of unemployment and it is figured as a rate by separating the quantity of unemployed people by all people presently in the work power. Amid times of recession, an economy more often than not encounters a generally high unemployment rate.[2] According to International Labor Organization report, more than 200 million individuals universally or 6% of the world 's workforce were without a vocation in 2012 There remains significant hypothetical civil argument with respect to the reasons, outcomes and answers for unemployment. Traditional financial matters, New established financial aspects, and the Austrian School of financial matters contend that market instruments are solid method for determining unemployment.
Typically, one does not think about unemployment being a social problem, unless you are someone that is unemployed or has experienced unemployment. Unfortunately, unemployment is becoming a serious social problem today in society. Many people who happen to be unemployed are more than capable of working they just do not have the proper experience or flexibility that a job requires. Many are also unemployed because there are not enough jobs for everyone. The unemployment rate is rising every day and the something needs to be done to stop this.
Unemployment in Kenya is attributed to a number of factors that include: rapid growth of the population and the labour force, skill mismatch, information problems in the labour market, structural adjustment programs, slow or declining economic growth, and the labour market setup, among others. High population growth rate in Kenya has resulted in a relatively young population and a large population of youth in the population of the working age (Njonjo, 2010). This increase in the youthful population and increasing labour force has led to labour supply outstripping demand. Consequently, unemployment, especially among the youth, has surged. In particular, high population growth has resulted in higher levels of unemployment.