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Demographics of Arab Protests

2/16/2011

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An insightful interview with Ragui Assaad from the Council on Foreign Relations on the challenges and opportunities of youth bulges in many Arab countries. I like his note about pressures on international migration:

Many of the developed countries, but in particular Europe, have a deficit of young people, and there's going to be tremendous pressure for migration from the countries in the southern Mediterranean and elsewhere in the Middle East and Asia to migrate. We have to find ways to allow this migration without creating anti-migrant backlashes.

Personal plug: Assaad is Professor at the Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota and I work as his TA for the class International Development Planning and Policy Analysis (which, of course, I highly recommend).
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    International development, economics and some pretty ambitious ideas from a stubborn graduate student clinging to her sense of adventure.


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