The PrOblem of unemployment in Basrah City Pavements Trade as a Model

Razzaq Yousef Nasrallah, Abdul

	The PrOblem of unemployment in Basrah City Pavements Trade as a Model
Economic Sciences
Article 1, Volume 5, Issue 17, 2008, Pages 75-96 PDF (0 K)
Author
Abdul Razzaq Yousef Nasrallah
Abstract
The unemployment represents one of the main challenges that are facing (confronting) Basrah governorate. As and economic phenomenon, unemployment is caused by several factors such as the rapid increasing rate of population growth in the governorate, which has been, estimated around 3 % annually. This percentage increase was regard as a relatively high one in the worldwide scale. The economic activation in Basrah was not perfectly sufficient to create adequate labor opportunities, to meet the increasing labor supply in the labor market in the city, because of the limited productive base of the industrial sector, that was suffer from decreasing productive capacity. In addition to the massive destruction of the previous wars that destroy economic infrastructures and the economic blockade form the past twelve years did their negative effects and did not permit the state to increase its investments or expenditures in Basrah specially because its is a boarder city . As a result, unemployment in the public sector has witnessed an obvious decline. Our study tries to cast some lights on the unemployment problem in Basrah city, which is namely represented in the pavements trade. We will try to analyses the distance, the causes, and then put some suitable solution for it.

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