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Why the smartest young people in the Gulf states want jobs in the public sector.

Why the smartest young people in the Gulf states want jobs in the public sector. Plus, Lucy Kellaway fulminates on the cruelty of rejection letters.

Katy Watson reports from Dubai on why the smartest young people in the Gulf states want jobs in the public sector. 

Plus, Professor Philippe van Parijs from the University of Louvain in Belgium explains why he supports the idea of a basic income, where everyone would get a small guaranteed payment from the state, whether they were working or not.

And Lucy Kellaway of the Financial Times fulminates on the needless cruelty of rejection letters.

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