Oman provides 25,000 state jobs

(MENAFN) Oman will create by the end of the year about 25,000 public sector jobs as promised to the people, this move will create an opportunity for unemployed citizens in spite of the budget risks that might come along.

The government will follow up with additional procedures to address the lack of jobs in the sultanate. Government News Agency reported yesterday.

In figures, according to the World Bank, unemployment in Oman was 17.5 percent in 2016.

The government promised to create 50,000 jobs in 2011, after an extraordinary wave of protests following the Arab Spring left two people dead in clashes with security forces.

Six years on, the economy is the trigger. Oman's budget shortage was about 21 percent of gross domestic product in 2016, the highest in the six-nation Gulf Cooperation Council, according to International Monetary Fund data.

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