Knowledge-Based Economic Policy Development in the Arab World

✍ Scribed by Ahmed Driouchi (editor)

• Publisher: IGI Global
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 463
• Series: Advances in Finance, Accounting, and Economics
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The Arab world is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. In order to keep up with the ever-progressing and expanding developments, advancements must be made with the current systems process and procedures.

Knowledge-Based Economic Policy Development in the Arab World focuses on knowledge economy as the most important engine for economic growth and development under the globalising world economies. This publication analyses the major issues that constrain further access to knowledge economy in the Arab countries with comparisons in Eastern and Central European economies. Researchers, business practitioners and academics interested in new economic and development inclusive growth policies will benefit greatly from the wide variety of discussion in this publication.

✦ Table of Contents

Title Page
Copyright Page
Book Series
Editorial Advisory Board and List of Reviewers
Table of Contents
Detailed Table of Contents
Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgment
Section 1: Introduction and Methods
Chapter 1: Knowledge Economy in the Arab World
Chapter 2: Why a Benchmarking with EEE Countries?
Section 2: The Overall Characterization of Knowledge Economy in Arab and EEE Countries
Chapter 3: School Attainment, Knowledge Economy in Arab Countries, and Comparisons with EEE Economies
Chapter 4: The Situation of Knowledge Economy in the Arab and EEE Regions
Chapter 5: Knowledge, Local Development, and Urbanization in Arab Economies
Chapter 6: How Local Development is Achieved in Relation to Knowledge in EEE Countries
Section 3: Production, Trade, and Employment
Chapter 7: Production, Trade, Knowledge Economy, and ICTs in Arab Countries
Chapter 8: The Oil and Gas Sectors, Renewable Energy, and Environmental Performance in the Arab World
Chapter 9: Harnessing Knowledge for Sustainable Development
Chapter 10: Intellectual Property Rights, Innovation, and Knowledge Economy in Arab Countries
Chapter 11: Unemployment Persistence, Risks of Skill Obsolescence, and Impacts on the Knowledge Economy in Arab Countries
Chapter 12: Education Attainment and Feminization of Labor Markets in Arab Countries with Comparisons to Eastern and Central European Countries
Section 4: Economic and Social Policies for Harnessing Knowledge for Development of the Arab World
Chapter 13: Rents from Natural Resources and Relations to Knowledge Economy in Arab Countries
Chapter 14: Doing Business and Imperfections in the Development of Knowledge Economy in the Arab Countries
Chapter 15: Knowledge Governance and Economic Growth in Arab Countries
Chapter 16: Policy Outcomes and What Can be Learned by Arab Countries from EEE Economies
Compilation of References
About the Contributors
Index