Economics of the Middle East and North Africa: The economic causes of the revolutions in Tunisia and other Arab countries? The economic challenges facing these countries that are needed to make a well-functioning democracy?
Dear Brahim,
Please find a copy of an IMF reprot on the economic challenges of the Arab Country in Transition whre I lead the chapter on financial reforms.
You can find also a working paper in 2014 a working apper on strctural reform in ACT.
This link is of interest: http://www.imf.org/external/np/seminars/eng/2014/act/
Best regards,
Sami Ben Naceur
Dear Brahim,
You may be interested in a new book The Government and Politics of the Middle East and North Africa by Mark Gasiorowski, Westview Press, 2014. There is also Mehran Kamrava, The Modern Middle East : A Political History since the First World War, University of California Press, 2005 or later editions.
Hi
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Dear Brahim,
Your question will find hundreds of answers with thousands of papers and books about Arab Spring ? But, is this scientifically relevant ? Not necessarly ? Why? It is very easy to write hundreds of articles and books about Arab Spring economic causes or determinants, after it took place. "A posteriori thinking" makes indeed wonderful explanations and seem scientifically relevant. But what about "A priori thinking" of a possible "arab spring" or " Un Mai 68 arabe" or "The Fall of the Southern Wall" ? What if looking about "a priori" published papers and predictions of Arab Spring , based on economic reasons and other fact observations ? What would you think of their scientific relevance statute, if they appear having been based on the good assumptions? If you are interested in this approach, non conformistic, but scientifically as relevant as any other a posteriori approach, then, I think I can help you.
Dear Ibrahim Achcar's highly regarded book "Tha Poeple Want", has been published in 2013, three years after 2010.It is still an explanation tentative, and not a prediction of the Arab Spring. The epistemics of event explanations (afterwards) should not be confused with relevant et good predictions ( beforehand).
Dear Ibrahim s.i Rabaia, Please take time to read my post : "The Myth of Revolutions Unpredictability..."
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