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Privilege-resistant policies in the Middle East and North Africa : measurement and operational implications

Mahmood, Syed Akhtar, author, Slimane, Meriem Ait Ali, author

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\"Renewing the social contract--one of the pillars of the new World Bank Group strategy for the Middle East and North Africa--requires a new development model built on greater trust; openness, transparency, inclusive and accountable service delivery; and a stronger private sector that can create jobs and opportunities for the youth of the region. Recent analytic work trying to explain weak job creation and insufficient private sector dynamism in the region point to formal and informal barriers to entry and competition. These barriers privilege a few (often unproductive) incumbents who enjoy a competition edge due to their connections or ability to influence policy making and delivery. Policy recommendations to date in the field of governance for private sector policymaking have been too general and too removed from concrete, actionable policy outcomes. This report proposes--for the first time--to fill this policy and operational gap by answering the following question: What good governance features should be instilled in the design of economic policies and institutions to help shield them from capture, discretion and arbitrary implementation? Privilege-Resisitant Policies in the Middle East and North Africa benchmarks eight countries on a number of policy areas with regard to their vulnerability to privilege-seeking. The book offers various operational and technical entry points to enhance privilege-resistant policy making in a concrete way that is politically tractable in different country contexts.\"--Page 4 of cover.

• Publisher: World Bank Group
• Subject: Economic development Middle East. / Economic development Africa, North. / Public-private sector cooperation Middle East. / Public-private sector cooperation Africa, North. / Human capital Middle East. / Human capital Africa, North. / Economic development. / Economic policy. / Human capital. / Public-private sector cooperation. / Middle East Economic policy. / Africa, North Economic policy. / Africa, North. / Middle East.
• ISBN: 9781464812071, 1464812071

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HC415.15.M34 2018	1	BOOK	BUSINESS