Tunisia's engineers' order puts members' unemployment near 23%, blames a weak economy, not oversupply

Mohsen Gharsi, dean of Tunisia's Order of Engineers, estimated unemployment among the order's more than 100,000 registered engineers at close to 23 percent, a figure he said still needs refining with the labour ministry. Gharsi argued the problem is not too many graduates but the economy's limited capacity to absorb their skills, citing continued emigration, especially among IT specialists.

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