Knowledge Economies in the Middle East and North Africa: Toward New Development Strategies (Wbi Development Studies)
Автор:Jean-Eric Aubert, Jean-Louis Reiffers, WORLD BANK FORUM ON KNOWLEDGE FOR DEVELO Год: [не указано] Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: [не указано] ISBN: 0821357018 The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has been facing considerable economic challenges. Left behind by the industrial revolution, overly dependent on oil resources, and on the fringes of the globalization process, a number of MENA countries haveembarked on structural reforms to overcome economic stagnation, mounting unemployment, and increasing poverty. At the same time, there is growing awareness worldwide that the knowledge revolution offers new opportunities for growth resulting from the availability of information and communication technologies and from the advent of a new form of global economic development rooted in the concept of the knowledge economy, which is based on the creation, acquisition, distribution, and use of knowledge. This book, developed from papers prepared for a World Bank sponsored conference, assesses the challenges confronting the region?s countries and analyzes their readiness for the knowledge economy based on a set of indicators. It...
