{"id":652028,"date":"2017-02-27T04:19:45","date_gmt":"2017-02-27T04:19:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/27\/demographics-time-bomb-or-dividend\/"},"modified":"2017-02-27T04:19:45","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T04:19:45","slug":"demographics-time-bomb-or-dividend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2017\/02\/27\/demographics-time-bomb-or-dividend\/","title":{"rendered":"Demographics: Time Bomb Or Dividend?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Fitch Group\u2019s <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bmiresearch.com\/articles\/demographics-time-bomb-or-dividend\"><strong>BMI Research<\/strong><\/a><strong> sees further political instability in the cards for the <\/strong><strong>MENA countries if they do not invest in labor-intensive infrastructure projects <\/strong>or make necessary reforms to employment law \u2014 measures it deems necessary to secure employment over the coming 10 years for a large generation of youth now entering the workforce. The flipside to this is that the region may be entering the cusp of a \u201cdemographic dividend\u201d if its countries succeed, with the benefit of significantly boosting economic productivity. <strong>BMI sees Egypt and Iraq as among the MENA countries most at risk of failing to absorb the mass of youth labor<\/strong> which will hit the job market in the coming decade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fitch Group\u2019s BMI Research sees further political instability in the cards for the MENA countries if they do not invest in labor-intensive infrastructure projects or make necessary reforms to employment law \u2014 measures it deems necessary to secure employment over the coming 10 years for a large generation of youth now entering the workforce. 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