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Conclusion

After more than year of the end of comprehensive campaign carried by the Ministry of Labor and Ministry of Interior to correct the status of irregular workers, and deporting more than a million, numbers do not show an improvement in unemployment rate, as it has been hovering slightly below 12% despite the many promises officials made. On the contrary, the campaign has resulted in the increase of prices of many goods and services and negatively affected the ordinary Saudi citizen - the primary consumer of such goods and services, in the first place. The direct economic outcomes have not differed from the compulsory Saudization policies adopted by the government since the 90s, which indicates the unlikeliness of finding a solution for unemployment without reducing the dependence on oil as an engine for economic growth. Indeed, if the goal of the campaign is finding a solution for the Saudi national having troubles getting a job -despite having high educational qualifications-, it has failed to achieve that until the writing of this paper in April 2015. This is unexpected to change since the answer of this dilemma requires creating new job opportunities that suits the education levels of nationals through a comprehensive economic strategy that works on finding projects that exploit the human resources of the young generation of thee Saudis and the economic peculiarities of the regions.Al-Khalifa 2013 A sustainable developmental policy in light of a durable knowledge-based economy is the only way to guarantee a solution for the problem of unemployment, in contrary to the security campaigns that portray foreign labor as the source of troubles and that deporting violators will be the fast solution for a long-term deep-rooted problem.