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The Arab Awakening: Determinants and Economic Consequences

February 2014 Economist Zubair Iqbal explains the daunting economic challenges facing Arab countries in transition following the Arab Awakening and the different trajectories stemming from those nations’ policy responses. Tunisia and Egypt provide an instructive case study: the former made hard fiscal decisions and has embraced sound economic principles and achieved broad support for a reform p...

Life after Oil: Economic Alternatives for the Arab Gulf States

There have been three economic transformations of the Arab Gulf. Yet the obstacles today remain eerily similar to those of forty years ago. The first transformation occurred after the discovery of oil, variously between the 1930s and the 1960s. For the first time, what had been one of the world’s poorest regions had the means to build elements of basic infrastructure and to improve standards of...

The Arab Human Development Report – Envisioning an Arab Renaissance

ditor’s Introduction: The Arab Human Development Report (ahdr) has had a noteworthy career. Within the Arab world, it has stimulated debate and controversy. In Europe and the United States, since its publication almost every discussion about development, democratization, and reform in Arab countries has made reference to the ahdr’s findings. Furthermore, outside reform initiatives, such as thos...

Informality, Employment and Economic Development in the Arab World

Internal Sustainability and Economic Growth in the Arab States

Understanding sustainability in a broader sense, as relating to the nature and quality of economic growth, and drawing on the recent literature on the fundamental determinants of growth, this paper looks at the achievements and prospects of the internal sustainability of Arab countries. The countries are classified in four broad categories depending on their production structure. The relevant i...