Building on Progress: Reform and Growth in the Middle East and North Africa

November 4, 1996

Summary

Countries in the Middle East and North Africa region have unprecedented opportunities for transforming their economies through accelerated economic growth, but the countries themselves must ensure the necessary conditions. This study, by the Middle Eastern Department, focuses on four areas that are fundamental to growth-enhancing structural changes: improving the region's investment performance, fiscal reform, financial sector reform, and trade liberalization.

Subject: Expenditure, Financial markets, Fiscal policy, Fiscal stabilization, International trade, Stock markets, Trade liberalization

Keywords: BOOK, country, East Africa, Eastern Europe, Fiscal stabilization, Global, investment performance, liberalization, Mena, MENA country, MENA economy, MENA region, Middle East, North Africa, oil revenue, Stock markets, trade, Trade liberalization

Pages:
83
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DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5089/9781557756251.071
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Series:
Books
Stock No:
BPRGEA0000000
ISBN:
9781557756251
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