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Youth Skills

Why financial inclusion for youth will raise all economic boats

Groups fighting for financial inclusion and youth employment united in Morocco. Will their findings promote progress?

A young women working the fields in Egypt Photo: <a href=”http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxfamnovib/6257022866/sizes/m/in/photostream/”> oxfamnovib (Flickr)</a>.

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Financial Inclusion

A small step for science, a giant leap for unemployed youth

As the youth unemployment rate closes in on 25 percent in the Middle East, young people are looking for jobs, and governments are looking for innovative ways to create them.

Failure to adapt to global climate change led to unrest across the Arab World. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/6argoo3a/6253592631/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Saleem-Homsi (Flickr)</a>

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How climate change puts the heat on governments

Incompetent, unjust governance by some of the Middle East’s worst despots brewed a recipe for disaster before the Arab Spring, but it took climate change to turn up the heat.

Educated youth in Tunisia want employment that utilizes their skills and passion. Photo: Joy Portella/Mercy Corps.

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Tunisia does not want handouts, loans or traditional aid. Can they get the investment they need?

"Can Tunisia become the Silicon Valley of the Arab World?" Columnist David Rohde explores this question in The Atlantic:

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Who needs the grid? Three ways Africans are making DIY electricity cheaper

Protesters wave Egypt's flag. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/caitelle/5403613016/sizes/m/in/photostream/">C. Elle (flickr)</a>

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Turning Arab Spring youth opinions into data - and change

This story was republished in The Christian Science Monitor.

Declaring Internet access a human right would dilute the rights that matter more, says Internet pioneer Vint Cerf. Photo: <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vint_Cerf_-_2010.jpg">Veni Markovski (Wikimedia)</a>

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Internet inventor: Poor people deserve livelihoods, not websites

Get real: The Internet isn't a human right.

A flourishing economy has enabled many Chinese citizens to climb the socio-economic ranks. Photo:<a href="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3054/2928911826_e8754e82e2_s.jpg">xiaming (flickr)</a>

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As China's middle class rises, so does social discontent

The spirit of 1989’s Tiananmen Square is alive in China, except the swarm of charged students has been replaced by a disgruntled, expanding middle class.

Inadvertently, an economic boom has resounded with cries for change.

Cafes in Tunisia have become a common hangout for unemployed college graduates, but now that educated youth may be able to get back to work. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/clurross/4543646129/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Flickr (clurross)</a>

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A new model for Middle East economic practices starts with Tunisia, Libya

Sitting in cafes all over Tunisia are unemployed youth with college degrees and nothing better to do.

Tunisia becomes the first country of the Arab Spring to hold a general election. <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/piaser/5359879369/">Photo: Gwenaël Piaser (Flickr)</a>

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In Tunisia, voting on the future of the Arab Spring

While the world's eyes are fixed on violence in Egypt and Libya, the Arab Spring’s most importa

Some of the thousands stuck at the Salloum border between Libya and Egypt. The situation on the Tunisian border is much worse. Photo: Cassandra Nelson/Mercy Corps

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Libya's Border Crisis

This has been reposted from the Mercy Corps blog.

Protests in Tunisia continue as people seek a fresh start in a new democratic government. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/nassernouri/5381808872/sizes/m/in/photostream/">Nasser Nouri (flickr)</a>

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Walking around Tunisia's capital in 2008, I couldn't help but notice the images of President Ben Ali looking down from every shop window and restaurant. The mandatory photos were a not-so-subtle reminder that the president was watching everything.

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The Leaders of Now

This has been reposted from The Mercy Corps Blog.

Swarms of protests have taken place in Egypt over the last several days. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/aljazeeraenglish/5387535965/">Al Jazeera English (flickr)</a>

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Tunisia, and Now Egypt?

Twitter, Facebook, Myspace -- you name the social network and it's bursting with information about the demonstrations that have taken Egypt by storm in the past few days.

Mobile internet buses are travelling through Tunisia's tough mountainous terrain to reach remote villages. Photo: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/http2007/2505165549/">Thierry (flickr)</a>

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Tunisia’s Internet Commuter

Buses transformed into mobile Internet centers are traveling around Tunisia’s villages, helping rural Tunisians find jobs and stay in touch with family and friends abroad.