In recent years, the delicate political climate in the Middle East has often overshadowed critical discussions related to economic and social development in the Arab world. This report focuses on the challenges of improving the region's competitiveness at a particularly critical time.
In recent years, the delicate political climate in the Middle East has often overshadowed critical discussions related to economic and social development in the Arab world. The region's economic fragility has intensified due to the economic backlash following the September 11th attacks. This report focuses on the challenges of improving the region's competitiveness at a particularly critical time. It highlights the enormous difficulties that the Arab world currently faces, problems that will only worsen unless drastic changes are made in these countries. It reveals why growth in the region has stagnated since the 1980s in spite of some of the highest investment rates in the world. It also examines why, despite its distinct natural resource endowments, the region has failed to capture a greater proportion of international trade and capital flows.
Part 1: Chapters; Peter K. Cornelius and Andrew M. Warner: Engines of Growth for the Arab World; United Nations Population Fund: The Arab Population; John Page: Structural Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa; Fiscal Revenue in South Mediterranean
In recent years, the delicate political climate in the Middle East has often overshadowed critical discussions related to economic and social development in the Arab world. The region's economic fragility has intensified due to the economic backlash following the September 11th attacks. This report focuses on the challenges of improving the region's competitiveness at a particularly critical time. It highlights the enormous difficulties that the Arab world currently faces, problems that will only worsen unless drastic changes are made in these countries. It reveals why growth in the region has stagnated since the 1980s in spite of some of the highest investment rates in the world. It also examines why, despite its distinct natural resource endowments, the region has failed to capture a greater proportion of international trade and capital flows.
Part 1: Chapters; Peter K. Cornelius and Andrew M. Warner: Engines of Growth for the Arab World; United Nations Population Fund: The Arab Population; John Page: Structural Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa; Fiscal Revenue in South Mediterranean