Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Engaging With the World

Das Gupta, Dipak (Editor)/ World Bank/ Nabli, Mustapha K. (Editor)/ World Bank (Corporate Author)

ISBN 10: 0821355740 / ISBN 13: 9780821355749

Published by World Bank, 2003

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illustrated edition. 296 pages. 9.75x7.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.

Seller Inventory # x-0821355740

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Engaging With the World
• Publisher: World Bank
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0821355740
• ISBN 13: 9780821355749
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.74 kilograms

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Synopsis

'Trade, Investment, and Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Engaging with the World' describes why expanding trade and investment is vital for this region. The greatest economic challenge is to create enough jobs for its rapidly growing labor force, which is increasingly young and educated, to ward off threats to social and political stability inherent in high unemployment rates. This effort requires higher, and more sustainable, economic growth than has been achieved in the past two decades. Expanding trade and private investment offers the best hope. The potential is enormous given the region's human resources, skills, location, history, and opportunities. The book analyzes why the region has yet to tap fully into the rich stream of global commerce and investment―and the measures needed to do so, including improvements in the domestic investment climate and reforms in the policies of the region's trading partners. Its findings will appeal to policymakers in the region, the private sector and civil society, trade specialists, donors and partners, and anyone with an interest in the history and prospects of the Middle East and North Africa.