The causes of the Increasing Unemployment in Yemen
Many countries around the world have an increase of the unemployment. Yemen
is one of the countries that have an increase of the unemployment. The jobless rate is
increasing day by day, especially after the Gulf war. The discrimination is part of it.
The first cause of unemployment in Yemen is the Gulf war. Everybody knows how
the wars damage the economy and the infrastructure. In 1991 when Iraq invaded Kuwait,
the United States with the aid of Saudi Arabia liberated Kuwait from Iraq. After the Gulf
war had ended the governments of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia thought Yemen sympathized
with Saddam Hussein. Kuwait and Saudi Arabia unfortunately deported about two million
Yemeni to their country. The deportation increased the number of unemployment. Yemen
could not supply jobs for the deportees’ people because Yemen is one of the poorest
countries in this region.
The second cause of unemployment in Yemen is the corruption. The corruption in
my country causes a lot of problems such as, increasing the unemployment and weakening
the economy. According to Sheba,” As for the unemployment rate in Yemen, the reasons
behind the increasing of unemployment are attributed to the failure of development, of
giving care to the social aspects, the bad economic performance manifested in the humble
growth average, ill matching between education and training and the requirements of the
labor market, the failure to create an investment climate, the lack of laws to boost
investment and a low investment average.”. Actually corruption is widespread today. Now
in Yemen the person can not find a job if he or she dose not have connection. For
instance my friends graduated from the University of Malaysia but they could not find jobs
because they do not know anyone in the government due to the lack of connection in the
government. But if the son of any ministers needs a job he or she can get it right away
even though he or she dose not have high education. I remember some professor in
Yemen, said” corruption is a cancer in society, and like cancer needs strong and focused
measure to treat it.” Corruption is a huge problem in Yemen that needs to be fixed by
honest people and good administration.
In summary. The countries which suffer from the increasing of unemployment have to fix
this problem very soon to promote the economy. Yemen also has to find solution for the
increasing of the unemployment to help its people to get better life.
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