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Employment Creation and Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa

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  • Heba Handoussa
  • Zafiris Tzannatos

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This book describes and analyzes critical aspects of the labor market and social protection in the Arab world. The authors address the interrelationship between labor, human development, and social well-being in the Middle East and North Africa region -- an interaction that is viewed against the backdrop of a globalization process that is a crucial shaping factor in national and international relations alike. The authors scrutinize the implications for workers of the new forms of insecurity being ushered in by the globalization era. At the forefront is the issue of social protection, which creates several dilemmas for policymakers, since formal social security covers only a small percentage of the labor force. The idea of social reinsurance, which would integrate the informal sector and allow for social dialog, emerges at various levels, and there is general agreement that any such dialog, or new social contract, must include government, the private sector, and civil society.

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  • Heba Handoussa & Zafiris Tzannatos, 2002. "Employment Creation and Social Protection in the Middle East and North Africa," World Bank Publications - Books, The World Bank Group, number 15246.
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