This book focuses on knowledge economy as the most important engine for economic growth and development under the globalizing world economies and analyzes the major issues that constrain further access to knowledge economy in the Arab countries.

"Compared to other regions of the world, the Middle East was once unique in its combination of authoritarianism and stultifying stability: No longer. Beginning in Tunisia, a wave of political upheaval has rolled across the region, reaching Egypt, Bahrain, Libya, and other countries caught...