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Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Arab Women & Youth facing enormous
challenges - could innovation and
entrepreneurship improve their lives?

In a recent report by the United life and excluded women account This enormous challenge
Nations Economic and Social for the tens of millions of people necessitates new approaches.
Commission for Western Asia in the region. The exclusion, Addressing it through a narrow
(UNESCWA), innovation jobs therefore, of youth and women not perspective, reduced to innovative
and entrepreneurship are now only disempowers them but also entrepreneurship by digital or any
generally considered as solutions advanced technology start-ups,
adversely impacts the economic
to unemployment and the economic will neither solve the problem of
and social wellbeing of the region,
empowerment of women and youth these large masses nor contribute
consequently increasing the burden
in the Arab region. to the SDGs in this region. As a
on the State and creating a vicious matter of fact, innovation and
Disenfranchised Arab youth circle that harms people, economies entrepreneurship should act on two
without prospects for a decent and development. coordinated fronts.
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