Publication: Trade, Investment and Development in the Middle East and North Africa : Engaging with the World
Date
2003
ISSN
Published
2003
Author(s)
World Bank
Abstract
The book describes why expanding trade,
and investment is vital for the Middle East and North Africa
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, and
opportunities. The book also 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.
Citation
“World Bank. 2003. Trade, Investment and Development in the Middle East and North Africa : Engaging with the World. MENA Development Report;. © Washington, DC. http://hdl.handle.net/10986/15116 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”