The global financial crisis of 2008-09 did not just change the global economic order. It also changed the way we think about that order. Principles and practices that were once accepted wisdom are now in doubt or discredited. New, fundamental questions opened. And the search for answers has...

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.

Maintaining macroeconomic stability / Ila Patnaik -- Building the welfare state / Surjit Bhalla -- Revamping agriculture and the public distribution system / Ashok Gulati -- Revisiting manufacturing policy / Rajiv Kumar -- Generating employment / Omkar Goswami -- Expanding education and skills /...

Introduction -- Legends of the fall -- Inequality -- Profit, progress, and the middle path -- Immigration -- Let the right ones in -- Islamic extremism -- Help your enemies defeat themselves -- Civil war -- A rough reconciliation -- Corruption -- The benefits of beginning at the bottom -- The...