VOL. XXXIX

No. 4

23-October-1995

GENERAL

World Bank Calls For New Social Contract Between Arab Governments And Workers

A recently published World Bank report on the countries of the Near East and North Africa tries to provide some answers to the most critical question currently facing Arab governments: how can governments set about reforming inefficient public sector bureaucracies and thereby encourage private sector-led growth when such reform leads inexorably to mass unemployment?...