Much has been written about the political, economic and social dimensions and challenges of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) (see Noland and Pack 2007; World Bank 2007b; AfDB and OECD 2008; Muasher 2008; Richards and Waterbury 2008; World Bank 2008d; IMF 2009b). These works cover the situation in different combinations of countries in the region depending on how they chose to define…
This book is a collection of papers from two workshops held in Jönköping, Sweden, in 2006 and 2007. The theme of the workshop in 2006 was ‘Corporate Governance and Investment’ in a wide sense. Topics of papers could be: to describe and analyse the ownership and corporate governance structure of a given country; to make a comparative analysis of governance structures in different coun…