VOL. XLI

No. 24

15-June-1998

PUBLICATION RECEIVED

The Future Role of the State in the Middle East and North Africa, Sven Behrendtand Christian-Peter Hanelt (eds.), published by the Bertelsmann Foundation, 1998.

Government revenues throughout the Middle East are likely to come under renewedpressure from two directions. The first is from the dramatic slump in oil prices over thelast six months and the second (and longer-term) from the gradual erosion of tariffbarriers through partnership...