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    <title>Knowledge economies in the Middle East and North Africa</title>
    <subTitle>toward new development strategies</subTitle>
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    <namePart>Aubert, Jean-Eric</namePart>
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    <namePart>Reiffers, Jean-Louis</namePart>
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  <tableOfContents>1. Overview
2. The Challenge: Changing the Growth Model
3. Knowledge and Economic Development: Recent Trends
4. MENA Countries' Readiness for the Knowledge Economy: A Snapshot
5. Social and Economic Frameworks
6. Education and Training
7. Innovation and Research
8. Telecommunications and the Information Infrastructure
9. Visions and Strategies
10. Conclusion
App. Benchmarking MENA Countries' Readiness for the Knowledge Economy
Documents Presented at the World Bank Forum on Knowledge for Development in the Middle East and North Africa, September 9-12, 2002, Marseilles, France</tableOfContents>
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  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-80).</note>
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