Middle East Youth Initiative

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Middle East Youth Initiative
EstablishedJuly 2006  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg (19 years ago)
FoundersWolfensohn Center for Development, Mohammed bin Rashid School of Government   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Dissolved2012  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Types research institute   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Headquarters Washington, D.C.   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
CountryUnited States  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

The Middle East Youth Initiative is a program at the Wolfensohn Center for Development, housed in the Global Economy and Development program at the Brookings Institution. It was launched in July 2006 as a joint effort between the Wolfensohn Center and the Dubai School of Government.

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The Initiative performs vigorous research on issues pertaining to regional youth (ages 15–24) on the topics of Youth Exclusion, education, employment, marriage, housing, and credit, and on the ways in which all of these elements are linked during young people’s experience of waithood. In addition to research and policy recommendation, the Initiative serves as a hub for networking between policymakers, regional actors in development, government officials, representatives from the private sector, and youth.

Current fellows with the Initiative include Djavad Salehi-Isfahani.

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