Course Materials

Arab Development Initiative, The State of Reform in the Arab World 2009-2010, and Arab Democracy Index Master Sheet (2008 baseline)

Brookings and Dubai School of Government, Middle East Youth Initiative (2008) - and other pubications online.

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 Finance Corporation (World Bank), MENA Corporate Governance Survey (2009?)

International Monetary Fund

• country reports (especially Article IV reports)
• George Abed and Hamid R. Davoodi, Challenges of Growth and Globalization in the Middle East and North Africa (2003)

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

• Christiane Arndt and Charles Oman, Uses and Abuses of Governance Indicators (1.9 meg pdf file, also available from PCL, SourceOECD)

Platinum Inc., Taming the Internet in Syria (2006?)

Transparency International, The Global Corruption Report 2009 and Corruption Perceptions Index 2009

United Nations Development Program, download any country Human Development Report at this search engine

• Arab Human Development Report 2004 - online (download 2.2 megs)
• other years - including the latest, 2009, on human security, also available at Arab Human Development reports home page
• Program on Arab Governance (POGAR)

The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for West Asia (ESCWA) has publications downloads for

• Estimates and Forecast for GDP growth in the ESCWA Region (Dec 2007)
• Analysis of Performance and Assessment of Growth and Productivity in the ESCWA Region (Dec. 2007)
• MDGs in the Arab Region 2007 - A Youth Lens: An Overview (released May 2008)
• Regional Investment Directory Report: ESCWA Member Countries (December 2007)
• Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the ESCWA Region 2006 - 2007 (May 2007)
• Progress Made by ESCWA Member Countries in the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus (September 2005 pdf file)
• Financing For Development - Monterrey update (Doha, April 2008)
• 2005-2006 Survey of Economic and Social Developments (April 2006 pdf file)
• Annual Review of Globalization and Regional Integration (Dec 2006) and other publications.

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), World Investment Report 2010 Table of Contents and you may also download the entire report, or just chapter 2 –regional FDI trends.
______, Trade and Development Report 2009 with downloads

World Bank, MENA Governance and News Notes (from Nov 2007 -to current - Jan 2010 issue); latest (2010) news about Syria; Survey of Corporate Governance of Listed Companies and Banks Across the MENA (2009)

The World Bank

• From Privilege to Competition: unlocking private-led growth in the Middle East and North Africa.(2009)
• Doing Business 2010: Reforming through Difficult Times
• Doing Business 2009 : Reforms Continue to Make it Easier to do Business in MENA
• Agriculture for Development - World Development Report 2008 - download all
• 2009-2010 World Trade Indicators - with interactive data
• 2008 World Trade Indicators (download is 3.4 megs)
• 2008 MENA Economic Developments and Prospects : Regional Integration for Global Competitiveness (Wash DC, 2008) - full download or by chapter.
• 2007 Economic Developments & Prospects : Job Creation in a Period of High Growth (Wash DC, 2007) - download 2.5 megs but also available by chapter.
• The Road Not Traveled : Education Reform in the Middle East and North Africa (May 2008)
• World Development Report 2007, Development and the Next Generation, online (download 2.65 megs or by chapter)
• Doing Business 2008 : Improved Rankings for the MENA Region - 37-page download
• Doing Business in 2007: How to Reform - download Report overview and "Doing Business Indicators"
• Environment for Women�s Entrepreneurship in the Middle East and North Africa Region (Oct. 2007)
• Making the Most of Scarcity : Accountability for Better Water Management Results in the Middle East and North Africa (March 2007)
• 2006 Economic Developments and Prospects : Financial Markets in a New Age of Oil (pdf 1 meg 142 pp download)
• Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan after the End of the Multi-Fiber Agreement: Impact, Challenges and Prospects? (December 2006)
• Is There a New Vision for Maghreb Economic Integration? (November 2006)
• Sustaining Gains in Poverty Reduction and Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa (2006)
• 2005 Economic Developments and Prospects : Oil Booms and Revenue Management
• Unlocking the Employment Potential in the Middle East and North Africa: Toward a New Social Contract (2003)
• Better Governance for Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Enhancing Inclusiveness and Accountability (2003) (pdf 138k Overview)
• A Better Investment Climate for Everyone - World Development Report 2005

The World Economic Forum

• Global Competitiveness Report 2009-10

• Tarik Yousef, Assessing Competitiveness in the Arab World

Arab Competitiveness Report 2007

• The Global Gender Gap Report 2007
• Report on 2006 Economic Summit

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,

• The United States and Iraq: American Bull in a Middle East China Shop, in Betty Glad and Chris J. Dolan, eds., Striking First (Palgrave Macmillan, 2004), pp. 65-73
• ________, "The Clash of Globalizations," in Louise Fawcett, International Relations of the Middle East, 2nd edition, Oxford University Press, 2009
• ________, Islamic Finance: Global Identity Problems and Prospects (2006 paper)
• ________, Transparency and Accountability in the Arab Region: A Political Economy Perspective, paper prepared for UNDP/OECD Initiative on Good Governance for Development (GfD) in the Arab Countries, Dead Sea, Jordan, Feb 6-7, 2005
• ________, Islamic finance in the dialectics of globalisation: Potential variations on the "Washington consensus"
• ________, Introduction to Special Issue on Islamic Banking, Thunderbird International Business Review, July 1999
• ________. "Algeria's Agonies: Oil Rent Effects in a Bunker State," Journal of North African Studies, 9:2 (summer 2004), pp. 68-81

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.

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Last updated 21 August 2010
Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin.
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