Arabic News Weekly Edition for Bahrain, 12/30/2002
Weekly Edition, Bahrain - Week of December 30, 2002
- Arab League economic file of Manama summit; more talk or action
A delegation representing the general secretariat of the Arab League, accompanied by experts from the Arab states arrived in Manama to prepare the economic file of the forthcoming Arab summit due to be held in the Bahraini capital, Manama. Regional-Bahrain, Economics, 1/4/2003 - King of Bahrain concludes visits to UAE United Arab Emirates-Bahrain, Politics, 1/2/2003
- Unemployment in Bahrain needs a growth of 6%
Bahrain's minister of social affairs and Labor Majid al-Alawi has announced that solving the problem of unemployment in Bahrain for the long run "requires achieving an economic growth ranging between 5 to 6%" in order to be able to "absorb the labor force introduced to the market." Bahrain, Economics, 12/31/2002