Description:
Outside the booming extractive sector, the links between the Arab economies of
the Middle East and the global economy are weak: the region's share of world
trade and investment has been falling, indicators of technology transfer are
stagnant, and little formal innovative activity appears to be occurring within
these economies.
One strategy for spurring entrepreneurship and
strengthening links to the global economy would be to reverse the region's brain
drain, a development that contributed to the blossoming of the high-tech sector
in countries such as Taiwan and India. Arabs in North America are both
richer and better educated than the national averages and disproportionately
employed in management or professional occupations.
Data on
Arab-Europeans are less informative, though generally paint a less positive
picture. Nevertheless, the question remains: can public policies in both the
sending and receiving countries encourage the strengthening of these productive
linkages?
Speakers Marcus Noland and Devin Stewart will be followed by commentary by
Jere Van Dyk.
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