On the other hand the cost of health care and education of the huge youth population
that characterises the demographic pyramids of UDCs consumes most of
the public resources. Also, the production system is unable to provide work for the
tremendous contingents of working age young people. This fact generates chronic
unemployment and marginality such as that seen in the Magreb and Muslim countries.
This marginality and unemployment, together with the Palestinian problem,
become a true cultural medium for global terrorism. The huge labour pool leads to
very low salaries that in turn lead to a lack of stimuli for technological innovation
(Kenwood and Lougheed, 1972) and reduce the possibility of forming an internal
market above the mere subsistence level.