Unemployment in oil-rich Gulf Arab States is still rampant. It indicates that despite impressive economic growth, local citizens are still grasping to have a decent life here. At least to land a decent job, Arab States considered unemployment as a hard problem to tackle.
"Nowhere is it done in such a way," Bu Hulaiga said of the influx of foreign workers into Gulf states, where expatriates comprise nearly 40 percent of a total population of about 37 million.
"It is not acceptable," he told AFP, noting that in 2007 Saudi Arabia issued a record 1.7 million new working visas.
The largest GCC country in both size and population, and the world's richest in oil resources, Saudi Arabia has about 6.5 million foreigners among a population of nearly 24 million.
But despite its wealth, unemployment among Saudis themselves was 11 percent in 2007, according to official figures, just one percent down from the previous year.
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