Post-repression, job creation...

Now that Tunisia and Egypt might be on the “right track,” how can a new government translate the hopes of millions into tangible economic improvements? Job don't grow on trees and it takes long term plans (something governments are woefully ill-equipped to do) and smart thinking to set the stage for employment, especially in countries that, aside from extractive energies and tourism, have very little to offer and are not particularly well endowed by mother nature to compete with northern economies. Already, thousands of Tunisians are fleeing towards Europe in hope of a better economic life and it might behoove the continent to do something that might help north Africans stay home instead of swelling the ranks of the unemployed on the opposite side of the Mediterranean.

That something might be job and cultural training, entrepreneurial development, infrastructure improvements, among other initiatives, but even in the bleakest scenario, there must be something these countries can do to sustain their people. Are foreign governments able to invent an economic model for these countries? I doubt it as well. The same can be said of most established NGO. So that leaves us with some independent bright minds with ideas that can be put to good work. Is there someone, out there that can come with a plan that could work to stabilizing and satisfying these nascent democracies?