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

Handoussa, Heba ; Tzannatos, Zafiris

Cairo:American University in Cairo Press in association with the Economic Research Forum and the World Bank

关键词: ACCESS TO EDUCATION;    ACCOUNTING;    ACTIVE LABOR;    ACTIVE LABOR MARKET;    ACTIVE LABOR MARKET POLICIES;   

RP-ID  :  73351

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: World Bank Open Knowledge Repository

【 摘 要 】

This book describes and analyzescritical aspects of the labor market and social protectionin the Arab world. The authors address the interrelationshipbetween labor, human development, and social well-being inthe Middle East and North Africa region -- an interactionthat is viewed against the backdrop of a globalizationprocess that is a crucial shaping factor in national andinternational relations alike. The authors scrutinize theimplications for workers of the new forms of insecuritybeing ushered in by the globalization era. At the forefrontis the issue of social protection, which creates severaldilemmas for policymakers, since formal social securitycovers only a small percentage of the labor force. The ideaof social reinsurance, which would integrate the informalsector and allow for social dialog, emerges at variouslevels, and there is general agreement that any such dialog,or new social contract, must include government, the privatesector, and civil society.