A New Arab Social Contract? Institutional Perspectives for Economic

This monograph offers a unique conceptual bridge between economic geography and Middle Eastern political economy. Arab economies are confronted with enormous structural difficulties such as high rates of youth unemployment in a challenging demographic con

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Maximilian Benner

A New Arab Social Contract? Institutional Perspectives for Economic Reform in Arab Countries

Economic Geography

Series Advisory Editors Dieter Kogler  , UCD School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin, Ireland Peter Dannenberg  , Geographisches Institut, Universität zu Köln, Cologne, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany Nuri Yavan  , Dil ve Tarih-Coğrafya Fakültesi, Ankara Üniversitesi, Ankara, Turkey Päivi Oinas  , Turku School of Economics, University of Turku, Turku, Finland Michael Webber  , School of Geography, University of Melbourne, Carlton, VIC, Australia David Rigby, Department of Geography, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, USA

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Maximilian Benner

A New Arab Social Contract? Institutional Perspectives for Economic Reform in Arab Countries

Maximilian Benner University of Vienna Vienna, Austria