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ABBRE VIATIONS
LMPS LSMS M&E MECOVI MENA MFN NEET NGO OAO ODA OECD OOLF PAYG PES PISA REER SME SOEC SSC SYPE TFP TIMSS TVET UA UAE UI UR USAID VET WAP
Labor Market Panel Survey Living Standards Measurements Survey monitoring and evaluation Program for the Improvement of Surveys and the Measurement of Living Conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean Middle East and North Africa most-favored nation neither in education, employment, or training nongovernmental organization open access order official development assistance Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development out of the labor force pay as you go public employment service Programme for International Student Assessment real effective exchange rate small and medium enterprises single open-ended contract Social Security Corporation Survey of Young People in Egypt total factor productivity Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study technical and vocational education and training unemployment assistance United Arab Emirates unemployment insurance unemployment rate U.S. Agency for International Development vocational education and training working-age population