In its recent report on Oman, the IMF advised the sultanate to seek ways to arrest unemployment levels. (www.arabi anbusiness.com/imf-urges-oman-act-arrest-jobless-rise-437673.html). This subject has been of enormous interest to me for over the last 15 years. While I was employed as CFO of Oman LNG, we held endless debates on how our then Social Investment Programme (one of the most ambitious and effective in many spheres of Omani society to date) ...