Narrative Description of Project
A review was made of economic, population and manpower data of several Arab countries for the purpose of identifying shortages and surpluses in the labor market. Whenever data permitted, a 5 years projection of labour requirements was performed. In addition, two sub-studies were performed for Lebanon: (1) a Delphi-type inquiry was undertaken covering over 100 representatives of the most active sectors to get their opinions on the sectors, (2) analysis of job requests in two leading newspapers over a two-year period to obtain the strength of the demand for various jobs and the characteristics of the jobs required in terms of language, years of experience and country of work. Detailed listing of individual jobs was generated showing qualitatively the surplus and deficit.
The firm was in charge of the entire project. Effort included data collection from each country, set-up of a work plan, integration of sub-studies, field interviews, coding, processing and analysis of data, and formulation of recommendations.
Description of Actual Services Provided
