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Sommario
- I. Introduction
- The Scope of This Book
- The Human Development Index
- Three Arab Worlds
- Human Development in the Three Arab Worlds on the Eve of the "Arab Spring"
- Human Development in the Three Arab Worlds After the "Arab Spring"
- A Note on Country Groups
- II. Historical Perspective
- Introduction
- Extensive versus Intensive Growth
- The Division of the World
- The Great Divergence
- III.International Trade, Natural Resource Rents, and Foreign Direct Investment
- Introduction
- International Trade and Industrialization of the Arab Mediterranean and Turkey
- Manufactured Exports to High-Income Consumers
- Service Exports to High-Income Consumers: Tourism
- Natural Resource Rents and OPEC
- Foreign Direct Investment
- IV. Human Resources
- Introduction
- Education
- Health
- The Demographic Transition
- V. Gender Gaps
- Introduction
- Education
- Labor Force Participation
- Health
- VI. Income Inequality, Poverty, Migration, and Unemployment
- Introduction
- Income Inequality as Measured by the Gini Index
- Poverty Headcounts
- Migration and Remittances
- Public and Private Sector Expenditure to Reduce Poverty
- Unemployment and Self-Employment
- VII. Environmental Challenges
- Introduction
- Water Scarcity and Lack of Access to Basic Drinking Water and Sanitation Services
- Air Pollution
- Municipal Waste and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
- The Consequences of Global Warming for the Arab Countries, Iran, and Turkey
- VIII. Government Spending: Urban Infrastructure, Energy Subsidies, and the Military
- Introduction
- Urbanization and Strain on Public Finance
- Urban Primacy
- Energy Subsidies
- Military Spending
- Slums
- Infrastructure Quality
- IX. Political Economy
- Introduction
- Corruption, GDP per capita, and Bureaucratic Inefficiency
- Bureaucratic Performance With Regard to Starting a Business and Enforcing Contracts
- Politically Connected Firms in Egypt and Tunisia
- X. Conclusion: Some Modest Proposals for Policy
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James Rauch is Professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER). He has done extensive research in the Middle East and was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Financial Economics in the American University of Beirut.
Riassunto
Economist James Rauch evaluates the socioeconomic trajectories of groups of Middle Eastern States in relation to each other and to countries with similar characteristics.
Testo aggiuntivo
The book provides students from economics, political science, and public policy with an accessible overview of economic theory, allowing them to better understand the subsequent chapters which explain why the Arab region lags behind other middle income countries in economic and human development. I highly recommend this volume for graduate survey courses on Middle East Politics and political economy of development
