VOL. XLIV

No 49

3-December-2001

YEMEN

PovertyIn Yemen Climbing As Employment Fails To Keep Pace With Labor Force Growth

Povertyin Yemen, already one of the highest rates in the Middle East, is climbing asemployment fails to keep pace with the growth in the labor force, according toa paper published as part of a series on poverty in the latest issue of Forum(October) of the Economic Research Forum for the Arab Countries, Iran andTurkey. In Yemen the gap between the annual rate of growth of the...