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Development without happiness yielded the Arab spring
Despite progress in economic and social development in the 2000s, there was an increasing
dissatisfaction with life among the population of many developing Arab countries. At the end of the
decade, these countries ranked among the least happy economies in the world... World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 7488, November 2015 Authors: Efstratia Arampatzi, Martijn Burger, Elena Ianchovichina, Tina Röhricht, Ruut Veenhoven
Blog Posts by World Bank authors
Economic inclusion can help prevent
violent extremism in the Arab world
News reports that “more likely than not” a
bomb downed the Russian plane in Egypt, and
ISIS affiliate’s claim of responsibility, is yet
What is the social contract and why does the Arab world need a new one?
To development economists (like myself), the
uprisings came as somewhat of a surprise. For
the previous decade, almost all the indicators of
Why inclusion is morally right and
economically smart As the Arab Spring played out, I saw our
[Indonesia’s] history repeating itself. Inequality
Morocco’s social contract and civil
liberties
Discussions on civil liberties in new social
contracts have centered mostly on citizen
another reminder of the dangers of violent
extremism …Read more economic well-being were strong and
improving… Read more and lack of opportunity brought whole societies
to the tipping point … Read more engagement, looking at access to information,
transparency and public consultations…Read
more
by Hafez Ghanem on Up Front (Brookings),
Nov. 10, 2015. by Shanta Devarajan on MENA Voices and
Views, Nov. 12, 2015 by Sri Mulyani Indrawati on Voices, Nov. 10,
2015
by Paul Prettitore on Future Development, Oct.
29, 2015
Toward a new social contract in Tunisia Lifting of Iran sanctions could have
major impact on energy market
The multiple tragedies of Syria’s
displaced women, and why the G20
needs to pay attention
“The dreams that we have are rights for
others”: Listening to disadvantaged
youth in Morocco
by Omer Karasapan on Future Development,
Oct. 27, 2015 by John Baffes on Development Talk, Nov. 13,
2015 by Omer Karasapan, Fri, 11/13/2015 by Ibtissam Alaoui on Mena Voices and Views,
Nov, 11, 2015
Events
UPCOMING: PAST:
The future of democracy in the Arab World
Wednesday Dec. 9, 2015 World Bank Rm. J6-050 Speaker: Tarek Masoud, Harvard U. Kennedy
School of Government Organizers: MENA Chief Economists’ Office
Saudi Arabia in Transition: Insights on Social, Political, Economic and Religious
Change
Video Speaker: Bernard Haykel, Professor of Near
Eastern Studies, Princeton. Discussant: Karen E. Young, Arab Gulf States
Institute.
Interesting Reads
Socio-political Attitudes across the
World: To What Extent Are They
Affected by One’s Religion, Its
Importance, Majority Status and
Relative Income?
This paper relates four aspects of an individual’s
religion to six important socio-political attitudes
that give rise to social tensions and political
instability … Authors: Jeffrey B. Nugent, Malgorzata Switek
and Fengyu Wu
ERF Working Paper No. 972
Are Syrians the New Palestinians? Article on Huffington Post’s We Are Not
Numbers (young Palestinian writers from Gaza
and Lebanon) Nov. 8, 2015
Sandra Bullock, Resource Rich
Countries and what [even] World
Bankers can learn from Evaluation How can the World Bank Group help countries
better manage their natural wealth? Insights
from IEG's evaluation. Nov. 10, 2015
Budgetary Institutions, Fiscal Policy,
and Economic Growth: The Case of
Saudi Arabia
This paper finds that although the Saudi
government uses a conservative oil price to
estimate oil revenues, government expenditure
in general, and capital expenditure in specific, is
still procyclical… ERF Working Paper No. 967 by Ashraf Galal Eid
The G-20, Syrian refugees, and the chill
wind from the Paris tragedy Blog by Omer Karasapan on Future
Development, Nov 19, 2015.
How ISIS Spread in the Middle East:
The Response
It’s Sunnis who ultimately hold the key to
defeating the Islamic State.
By David Ignatius,
The Atlantic, Nov. 13, 2015
My Tunisian Hometown — Forgotten
Once, Forgotten Still Blog by Farah Samti on ForeignPolicy.com Nov. 12, 2015
Bassem Youssef: Egypt's answer to Jon
Stewart on the pressure on TV satirists
The Guardian, Nov. 7, 2015.
Unlocking the Promise of Islamic
Finance by Christine Lagarde, MD, IMF at the Islamic
Finance Conference, Kuwait City November 11, 2015
Natural Resource Booms in the Modern
Era : Is the curse still alive?
By Andrew M. Warner, IMF Working Paper No. 15/237 Nov. 2015
In the News
New ideas to tackle Syria refugee crisis:
investing not aid The Associated Press, Nov 16, 2015. Discusses new WB financing approach for
MENA.
MENA region in serious economic crisis: WB expert The Kuwait Times, Nov 11, 2015 Discusses Shanta Devarajan’s lecture at the Kuwait Economic Society
Aiwa (yes) minister: The region’s
countries desperately need to reform
their public sectors
The Economist, Nov 14, 2015.
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