Pursuing Youth Agenda in the Middle East Among "Top 10 Global Economic Challenges"

A new report by experts at the Brookings Institution's Global Economy and Development Program identifies a positive youth agenda for the Middle East as one of the top global economic priorities facing the next U.S. president.

"The next American president must recast the U.S.-Middle East relationship on broader terms - seeking to move beyond security to comprehensive engagement...The new discourse on economic and political reform should be aligned with the aspirations of the majority of the people in the Middle East: the young who are striving for global integration."

Navtej Dhillon, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, and Tarik Yousef in Top 10 Economic Challenges Facing America's 44^th President (Brookings Institution, October 2008)