Course Materials
Arab Development Initiative, The State of Reform in the Arab World 2009-2010, and Arab Democracy Index Master Sheet (2008 baseline)
Commission on Growth and Development, The Growth Report: Strategies for Sustained Growth and Inclusive Development (The Michael Spence Report, World Bank, 2008)
Carnegie Endowment, Arab Reform Bulletin - also indexed by topic - and other publications.
International Monetary Fund
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)
Transparency International, The Global Corruption Report 2009 and Corruption Perceptions Index 2009
The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) has publications downloads for
United Nations, Population and Development: The Demographic Profile of the Arab Countries (data up to 2003)
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), World Investment Report 2008 (Sept. 24, 2008)
The World Economic Forum
Brad Bourland and John Sfakianakis, Saudi 2006 budget analysis (Jan 2006 article)
Clague, Keefer, Knack, and Olson, "Contract Intensive Money," IRIS Working Paper 151, U of Maryland, College Park, Oct. 1997
Crandall and Bodin, Revenue Administration Reform in the Middle Eastern Countries, 1994-2004, IMF Working Paper
Clement M. Henry,
Todd Landman, Map-Making and Analysis of the Main International Initiatives on Developing Indicators of Democracy and Good Governance, University of Essex, Human Rights Centre, 2003
Tamara C. Wittes, What Price Freedom? Assessing the Bush Administration's Freedom Agenda, Saban Center, Brookings, Analysis Paper Number 10, September 2006.