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| | The Arab Economies in A Changing World |
| (Embedded | By Marcus Noland and Howard Pack |
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| pic04213.jpg) | The tragic events of 9/11 and the |
| | subsequent war in Iraq have focused |
| | international attention on a nexus of |
| | problems involving economic |
| | underperformance, problematic internal |
| | politics, and externalization of domestic |
| | dissent in the Muslim world. This book |
| | examines the economics of the Middle East, |
| | with the aim of identifying changes to |
| | economic policy that could address at |
| | least the economic component of the |
| | challenges facing this part of the globe. |
| | The authors analyze the interaction of |
| | trade, productivity growth, and the |
| | political difficulties that may ensue as |
| | these countries move towards greater |
| | openness. Relevant comparisons are drawn |
| | from the experience of the transition |
| | economies and India on potentially |
| | successful policies and those likely to |
| | exacerbate existing problems. |
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Praise for The Arab Economies in a Changing World:
". . . the only book to my knowledge that provides a comprehensive
and integrated politico-economic analysis of Arab economic
performance and prospects. It will fill a big need in college
syllabi . . . ."
--Farrukh Iqbal, World Bank
". . . a major addition to a very slim literature on an important
issue."
--Patrick Clawson, Washington Institute for Near East Policy
?This book fulfills a major gap in the literature on Middle Eastern
economies. With universities struggling to add courses on the
political economy of the Middle East, this volume will prove to be a
great resource. . . . Essential"
--Choice
Monday, November 12, 2007
5:30pm
World Bank J Building, Auditorium J1-050
701 18th St. NW corner of 18th St. and Pennsylvania Ave.
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Presented by
Marcus Noland
Senior fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Mr. Noland's work encompasses a wide range of topics including the
political economy of US trade policy and the Asian financial crisis.
His areas of geographical knowledge and interest include Asia and
Africa where he has lived and worked. In the past he has written
extensively on the economies of Japan, Korea, and China, and is
unique among American economists in having devoted serious scholarly
effort to the problems of North Korea and the prospects for Korean
unification. He won the 2000?01 Ohira Memorial Award for his book
Avoiding the Apocalypse: The Future of the Two Koreas.He was
educated at Swarthmore College (BA), and the Johns Hopkins
University (PhD). He was a Senior Economist at the Council of
Economic Advisers in the Executive Office of the President of the
United States and has held research or teaching positions at Yale
University, the Johns Hopkins University, the University of Southern
California, Tokyo University, Saitama University (now the National
Graduate Institute for Policy Studies), the University of Ghana, the
Korea Development Institute, and the East-West Center. He has
received fellowships sponsored by the Japan Society for the
Promotion of Science, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Council
for the International Exchange of Scholars, and the Pohang Iron and
Steel Corporation (POSCO).
Howard Pack
Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Mr. Pack has been a professor of economics and professor of business
and public policy at the Wharton School since 1986, and professor of
management there since 1995. He was a consultant at a number of
institutions including the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank,
the Inter-American Development Bank, the Agency for International
Development, and the Overseas Development Council. He was a fellow
at the Harry S. Truman Institute for Peace Research, the Hebrew
University, Jerusalem, and the Jerusalem Institute for Israel
Research at the same university. He is on the editorial boards of
World Bank Research Observer, World Development, Journal of
Development Economics, and World Bank Economic Review. He is
coauthor of The Arab Economies in a Changing World (2007), Famine in
North Korea: Markets, Aid, and Reform (Columbia University Press,
2007), Industrial Policy in an Era of Globalization: Lessons from
Asia (2003) and author of Productivity, Technology and Industrial
Development (Oxford University Press, l987) and Structural Change
and Economic Policy in Israel (Yale University Press, 1971).
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