Unemployment in Tripoli is at nine percent. Potential jobs through support of SMEs and startups

The working age population in the North is estimated at 610,000 individuals, of which 53 percent are inactive, leaving a total labor force of 289,000, according to the World Bank report "Jobs for North Lebanon", issued this week.

Within the participating labor force, 20 percent are employers and 22 percent are self-employed, both are largely informal. Just 49 percent of the labor force receive a standard wage and of those, only 15 percent are formal wage workers. The remaining nine perce...

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