{"id":38906,"date":"2019-04-08T11:22:46","date_gmt":"2019-04-08T11:22:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38906"},"modified":"2019-04-08T11:22:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-08T11:22:46","slug":"iraqi-youth-fight-unemployment-with-startups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=38906","title":{"rendered":"Iraqi youth fight unemployment with startups"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"76\">\n<p>Rising unemployment in Iraq is provoking growing demands \u2013 particularly by young people &#8211; for government action.<\/p>\n<p>The International Monetary Fund says youth unemployment is more than double the government&#8217;s official rate of 20 percent.<\/p>\n<p>The jobless often blame corruption and mismanagement while government leaders say the problem stems from years of conflict.  <\/p>\n<p>A solution to unemployment is The Station, established last year by young Iraqis to assist startup companies. <\/p>\n<p>The Station is privately funded by local and international non-government organisations and offers office space for rent and access to experts to provide business guidance.  <\/p>\n<p>But many jobless Iraqis say it is still not enough to help tackle growing unemployment around the country.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s Dorsa Jabbari reports from Baghdad.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rising unemployment in Iraq is provoking growing demands \u2013 particularly by young people &#8211; for government action. The International Monetary Fund says youth unemployment is more than double the government&#8217;s official rate of 20 percent. The jobless often blame corruption and mismanagement while government leaders say the problem stems from years of conflict. A solution&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":38907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/38907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}