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TunisiaEnhancing Decent Jobs Creation and Access to Funding for Youth: Employment Formalisation and Financial Inclusion Foster Growth in MENA Countries
This paper was submitted and accepted for presentation at the FEMISE 2023 Annual Conference, “Shifting Paradigms: Opportunities for a Deeper EU-Mediterranean Integration in a Changing World,” Barcelona, Spain, 27-29 September 2023 under the theme: A better integrated Euro-Mediterranean region.
The paper aims at investigating the following threefold issues: Why youths in MENA countries (i) face pervasive informal employment and unemployment, and (ii) lack financial inclusion? and (iii) What are the relevant policies formalising informality and promoting financial inclusion? With respect to inclusive growth for youths, all three issues are linked.
Noteworthy is that this note is using both representative panel data sets for Egypt (2012-2018) and Jordan (2010-2016) as well as cross-sectional surveys that are representative for the two aforementioned countries, plus Tunisia, addressing the same youth categories within a similar time-frame over the 2010s.
