The END Fund
Yemen is a low-income country on the Arabian Peninsula (Fig. 1) with a human development index equivalent to that of Nigeria or Madagascar [1]. It is also a nation beset by violence because of a southern secessionist movement and, most recently, an escalating level of civil unrest in the capital of Sana′a [2]. In addition to rising levels of violence fueled by ongoing tribal conflicts and the presence of an Al-Qaeda insurgency, the country is faced with rising levels of unemployment (estimated overall unemployment is 17.34% [3] and youth unemployment is 34.8% [4]) and poverty (52.5% of the population live in multidimensional poverty [5]), and a growing youth population (in 2012 the fertility rate was 4.2 and the annual population growth rate was 3.2 [6]).
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