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What is the NITAQAT?

Arabian for “ranges,” the Nitaqat is an incentive program designed by the Ministry of Labor of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for the nationalization of the private sector workplace. This is to answer the growing youth unemployment among Saudi citizens, which is higher than every country in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) except Iraq. Ironically, KSA employment is dominated by foreigners in the ratio of nine in every ten employees. Although the private sector has been creating jobs, they do not go to Saudis.

The government’s goal is to succeed in creating 1.12 million new jobs for Saudi nationals by 2014, or 92 per cent of all new jobs created, as set out in the current development plan.

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