Locked Out: The Roots of Arab Spring

An earlier post looked at the dysfunctional legal systems of the Middle East that lock most young people out of the formal economy (Economic Freedom Policies for the Middle East and International Terrorism). In that post, the Institute for Liberty and Democracy's research on Egypt's economy is discussed, with a link to DeSoto's Wall Street Journal oped summarizing the findings.

Izzit.org has a new twenty-minute educational video on the topic: Locked Out: The Roots of Arab Spring, and segments can be viewed on this Izzit.org web page.

Teachers (including homeschool parents) can request a free Izzit.org educational video once a year. For the Middle East or international terrorism topic, any of the Hernando de Soto videos will be valuable. In fact all of the Hernando de Soto videos are worth watching even neither Middle East or international terrorism topics are chosen, or for those not planning to compete in NCFCA policy debate.

Izzit.org videos cover key economic issues and the various Hernando de Soto videos are valuable for geography and history as well as government and development economics.

[Further posts and updated versions of these have been moved to retitled blog site here.]