Arab Human Development Report 2016

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Contents • Joining the labour market • Employment 3.4 Constraints on job creation 3.5 Policies that could help labour markets in the Arab region • Labour market programmes: A palliative, but not much more • Infrastructure: Money well spent • Investment support programmes: Money not well spent • Labour market integration: The jury’s still out • The business environment needs to be upgraded Chapter 4 The new dynamics in the inclusion and empowerment of young women 4.1 The challenges facing young women in the Arab region • Legal barriers to equality • Representation in formal politics • Education • Employment • Gender-based violence (GBV) • The effects of social and political conservatism 4.2 Family, marriage, and reproductive rights • Changing family patterns • Reproductive rights and marriage as a norm • Negotiating ‘waithood’ in the parental home 4.3 Young women mobilizing in a globalized world • From feminism to social justice • Obstacles to mobilizing women • A new political consciousness that transcends divisions 4.4 Removing the cultural and economic obstacles to women’s equality Chapter 5 Health status and access to health services 5.1 The health status of youth • Challenges to improving health among youth in the Arab region • The main causes of youth mortality and morbidity • Road traffic injuries and deaths: A plague among more well off young men in the Arab region • Non-communicable diseases: An increasing burden • Sexual and reproductive health: A delicate discourse • Mental health among youth in the Arab region: A dangerous age 5.2 Risk and protective factors • Risk factors: Tobacco and substance abuse • Protective factors: Positive behaviours, experiences and characteristics 5.3 Inequities in young people’s health 5.4 Health interventions to promote well-being: Adolescent and youth friendly health services 5.5 Current non-health sector interventions: From health for all to health in all policies 5.6 Looking to the future 16
Contents • Non-communicable diseases • School- or university-based interventions Chapter 6 The effects on youth of war and violent conflict 6.1 Youth in war-torn countries: Growing up amid strife and violence 6.2 The effects on physical health • Syria • Iraq • Palestine • Somalia • Sudan 6.3 Effects on mental health • Iraq • Palestine • Lebanon • Across Arab countries 6.4 The impact of conflict on education and employment • Syria • Iraq • Palestine • Somalia • Sudan 6.5 Forced migration and its impact on youth 6.6 Conflict and civic participation Chapter 7 Exclusion, mobility and migration 7.1 Migration pressures and patterns 7.2 Profile of young migrants in the Arab region • Migrants to the GCC countries are often skilled and highly skilled men • Migrants to OECD countries: Education looms large • Subregional patterns: from North Africa, mixed in the Mashreq, and to the GCC. Refugees stay close to home • The exclusion of the highly skilled and the flight of human capital 7.3 Migration policies in receiving and sending countries • Receiving countries – The west attracts many top Arab graduates – Subordinating through sponsorship • Sending countries – Closely involved in migration, but need to protect the vulnerable more 7.4 Some benefits of mobility • Migration of young women from the Arab region • Scientific diaspora networks and migrant associations • Remittances 7.5 Reducing barriers to mobility in the region • Visas 17
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Even in 2013, opposition to the sep
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Figure 2.14 Social and religious to
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Endnotes 1 Inglehart and Welzel 201
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Chapter 3 Education and the transit
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Figure 3.1 Average years of schooli
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3.2 Inequality of opportunity in ed
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Box 3.1 Steffen Hertog Characterist
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Figure 3.2 Youth unemployment rate
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3.5 Policies that could help labour
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egulatory costs in starting and run
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4.1 The challenges facing young wom
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Box 4.1 Aseel Alawadhi: Cancellatio
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Box 4.2 Hibaaq Osman: Girls in conf
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Table 4.1 Population and reproducti
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Box 4.3 Islamic feminism across bor
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Box 4.4 An inclusive space: Egypt
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4.4 Removing the cultural and econo
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Endnotes 1 IRIN 2009. 2 Algeria, Ba
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Chapter 5 Health Status and Access
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on younger adolescents in the 13-15
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of fatalities (annex 2 figure A.9).
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While FGM is supported by religious
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from exposure to tobacco smoke, reg
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Figure 5.5 Healthy life expectancy,
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5.4 Health interventions to promote
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• Money: the services available t
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6.1 Youth in war-torn countries: gr
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continue long after peace treaties
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Box 6.3 The impact of war and viole
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Youth-specific health outcome indic
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injury, or a threat of injury, or a
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including war, on well-being is med
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the larger regional community of kn
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eproduce and deepen the negative ef
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90 Mehchy 2014, p. 17. 91 Al-Monito
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Chapter 7 Exclusion, mobility and m
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Figure 7.1 Arab migration by region
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than a quarter (26 percent). By com
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Figure 7.4 Share of young migrants
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of their exclusion at home. 34 The
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Box 7.3 Florence Jusot: The impact
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7.4 Some benefits of mobility Young
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Remittances are mainly spent on con
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of practice. Finally, engineering a
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8.1 Youth in the Arab region: Chall
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Figure 8.1 Perceptions of youth on
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Figure 8.3 Number of terrorist atta
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Figure 8.5 The Arab region: Home to
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Figure 8.7a My World: The prioritie
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of the Arab Centre for Research and
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Disengagement & reintegration 17. E
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Box 8.2 Fahem mish hafez* Tahrir Ac
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likely to grow and generate jobs. T
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Investment in youth participation r
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Statistical Appendix
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with their life as a whole, and a s
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Indicators Data Source Age-group Ar
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Annex 1 Human development indicator
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Acronyms and abbreviations HDI GNI
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Figure A.10 Prevalence of overweigh
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Table A.1 Bilateral remittance esti
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Table A.12 Women with unmet contrac
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Table A.16 Migration to and from Ar
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Table A.18 Inward migration to Arab
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