(African Economic Research Consortium, 2022-02) Al-Ayouty, Iman
Over the 2006-2017 period, Egypt’s average rate of unemployment was 11
percent, with a 24 percent unemployment among the youth (15-29). To mitigate
unemployment (in total, and among the youth), a primary policy concern is how to
promote industries with a high employment-generating potential. For this purpose,
it remains key to identifying those industries, and to move beyond the national-level,
to the regional/governorate-levels. The promotion of industries at the regional level
comes against the backdrop of the regions’ total employment, youth employment,
the skill and gender features of employment, and youth unemployment.