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Arab youth for reforms, not instability: Survey
 

Khaleej Times By Ahmed Shaaban  - March 16, 2010

The high cost of living, unemployment, human rights and the gap between the rich and the poor are the top concerns of the youth in the region, according to a recent survey.

The findings of 2010 ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller Arab Youth Survey released on Tuesday in Dubai and New York show that the youth in the Middle East also want reforms, but not instability. They also hold democracy as a priority.

The survey also brought out an interesting difference between the youth in the UAE and those in the whole region. Sixty-four per cent of them in the UAE want to start their own businesses in the next five years as against 51 per cent in the region.

In education too, the UAE youth stand apart. The third annual survey, the largest of its kind in the region, reveals that 90 per cent of the UAE youth expect to pursue further education, as compared to 63 per cent of the youth in all Gulf countries and 14 per cent of non-Gulf youth. Conducted by international polling firm Penn Schoen Berland (PSB), the survey included 2,000 face-to-face interviews with Arab nationals and Arab expatriates aged 18 to 24 in the six Gulf countries as well as Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan and Iraq from December 2010 and January 2011.

In February and March of this year, in the wake of the unrest in some parts of the region, PSB conducted an additional poll of 500 young people in Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.

The key findings show that the high cost of living is perceived as the most significant challenge, followed by unemployment. In both instances, the level of concern is much higher among Gulf youth than others. The Arab youth are also significantly more concerned about the gap between the rich and the poor than they were in 2009, especially in Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia.

Joseph Ghossoub, chairman and CEO of the MENACOM Group, regional parent of ASDA’A Burson-Marsteller, said in a region where two-thirds of the population are under the age of 30, policymakers, business leaders, marketers and the media need to understand the priorities of the young people. “Youth are youth; they are dedicated to change and want others to listen carefully to them.”

Ghossoub said with 350 million people in the region, there would be an urgent need to provide 50 million jobs within a few years, and that meant more unemployment. “We have to give youth hope in the future as they have the upper hand now, decide what they want, and take action.”

The other findings show that 80 per cent of the Arab youth use the Internet on a daily basis, and social networking is also expanding dramatically. Television, however, remains by far both the most popular and most trusted source of news for youth across the region.

Traditional values are extremely important to Arab youth, especially to 94 per cent of the youth in Iraq and 91 per cent in Bahrain. Nonetheless, young Arabs have increasingly favourable views of major global powers.

Although Gulf and non-Gulf youth have very different perceptions about the dominant powers in the East and West, youth across the region believe the concept of global citizenship is important to them. Some 25 per cent of the UAE youth attach significantly less importance to the concept of global citizenship than they did in 2009.