Bright but jobless

Though today's 15-to-24-year-olds are overall the best educated generation of youth in history, they often have to struggle the most in the job market, finds the World Youth Report 2007.

This age group which makes up 25 percent of the global working-age population also accounts for nearly 44 percent of the unemployed.

More on the subject: four new working papers on youth and employment in the Middle East.