Breaking the barriers to higher economic growth
Subtitle: better governance and deeper reforms in the Middle East and North Africa
By: Mustapha Kamel Nabli.
Publisher: World Bank
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 486
ISBN-13: 9780821374153
Subjects: Economic development -- Political aspects -- Middle East; Economic development -- Political aspects -- Africa, North; Macroeconomics; Middle East -- Economic conditions; Africa, North -- Economic conditions; Middle East -- Economic policy; Africa, North -- Economic policy
Description: "The world's attention to the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has often been dominated by headline issues: conflict, sanctions, political turmoil, and rising oil prices. Breaking the Barriers reflects the collected thinking of the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the MENA Region on the long-term development challenges facing the region and the reform priorities and strategies for effectively meeting these challenges."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface; title: Acknowledgments; title: Growth, reform, and governance. Long-term economic development challenges and prospects for the Arab countries / Mustapha K. Nabli; title: Reform complementarities and economic growth in the Middle East and North Africa / Mustapha Kamel Nabli and Marie-Ange Véganzonès-Varoudakis; title: After Argentina : was MENA right to be cautious? / Mustapha K. Nabli; title: Restarting Arab economic reform / Mustapha K. Nabli; title: Democracy for better governance and higher economic growth in the MENA region? / Mustapha K. Nabli and Carlos Silva-Jáuregui; title: The political economy of industrial policy in the Middle East and North Africa / Mustapha K. Nabli ... [et al.]; title: Labor markets and human capital. The macroeconomics of labor market outcomes in MENA / Jennifer Keller and Mustapha K. Nabli; title: Challenges and opportunities for the 21st century / Mustapha Nabli; title: Labor market reforms, growth, and unemployment in labor-exporting countries in the Middle East and North Africa / Pierre-Richard Agénor ... [et al.]; title: Economic reforms and people mobility for a more effective EU-MED partnership / Ishac Diwan ... [et al.]; title: Trade, competitiveness, and investment. Cruise control, shock absorbers, and traffic lights / Mustapha K. Nabli; title: Trade, foreign direct investment, and development in the Middle East and North Africa / Farrukh Iqbal and Mustapha Kamel Nabli; title: Making trade work for jobs / Dipak Dasgupta ... [et al.]; title: Exchange rate management within the Middle East and North Africa Region / Mustapha Nabli, Jennifer Keller, and Marie-Ange Véganzonès; title: How does exchange rate policy affect manufactured exports in MENA countries / Mustapha Kamel Nabli and Marie-Ange Véganzonès-Varoudakis; title: Public infrastructure and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa / Pierre-Richard Agénor, Mustapha K. Nabli, and Tarik M. Yousef; title: Governance, institutions, and private investment / Ahmet Faruk Aysan, Mustapha Kamel Nabli, and Marie-Ange Véganzonès-Varoudakis.