Business Insider quotes Africa Center Director J. Peter Pham on Tunisia possessing one of the highest youth unemployment rates in the world:
A high youth-unemployment rate “helps prepare an environment where it’s easier for that narrative to take root. It makes some of them more receptive,” J. Peter Pham, director of the Africa Center at the Atlantic Council, told IB Times.”For the person looking for a job or struggling to make ends meet, macroeconomic theory doesn’t put bread on the table.”