The Effectiveness of Small and Medium Enterprises Adoption as a Strategic Option to Solve Unemployment Problem in the Arab World, an Example of Algeria
Youcef Ali Alia
Abstract
Unemployment is an important economic and social problem in the majority of MENA countries. Getting an
accurate and internationally comparable valuation of its magnitude is therefore of attention in its own right. The
suitable measure of unemployment is likely to rely on the purpose at hand. Unemployment can be used as an
indicator of inflationary weights in the labor market, as a gauge of social hardship or as a measure of underutilization
of labor. It is, however, not necessarily the same set or the same number of persons that are of interest
in each of these cases. This research paper aims to clarify what is unemployment and the reason that cause as
well as suggesting Small and Medium Enterprises as a solution in solving the unemployment issue in the in the
Arab region in general and Algeria in particular, the problem which has a negative impact on production
capacity, economic growth and the overall development over the Arab region.
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