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The State Of The Middle East
ByThe Economist sums up a United Nations Development Programme report on Arab nations:
They have, for a start, failed to make their people free: six Arab
countries have an outright ban on political parties and the rest
restrict them slyly. They have failed to make their people rich:
despite their oil, the UN reports that about two out of five people in
the Arab world live on $2 or less a day. They have failed to keep their
people safe: the report argues that overpowerful internal security
forces often turn the Arab state into a menace to its own people. And
they are about to fail their young people. The UNDP reckons the Arab
world must create 50m new jobs by 2020 to accommodate a growing,
youthful workforcevirtually impossible on present trends.
The magazine goes on to predict the collapse of these systems.
