Arab World Competitiveness Report 2011-2012 - World Economic ...

The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2011-2012 is published by the
World Economic Forum and the OECD
At the World Economic Forum
Robert Greenhill, Chief Business Officer
Jennifer Blanke, Senior Director, Head, Centre for Global
Competitiveness and Performance
Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz, Director, Senior Economist
Miroslav Dusek, Acting Director, Head, Middle East and North Africa
Matthew Miller, Associate Director
Sofiane Khatib, Associate Director
Roberto Crotti, Junior Quantitative Economist
At the OECD
Anthony O’Sullivan, Head, Private Sector Development Division,
Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs
Marie-Estelle Rey, Senior Policy Analyst, MENA-OECD Investment
Programme, PSD-DAF
Jorge Gálvez Méndez, Policy Analyst, PSD-DAF
The report received valuable inputs and comments from Robert
Ley, Antonio Fanelli and the team of the MENA-OECD Investment
Programme, led by Alexander Böhmer, including, Korin Kane, Nathalie
Sulmont and Moritz Schmoll, Consultants, and Yvonne Giesing, Gabriel
Boc, May Khoury, Martina Kadunc, and Fernando Morthera, Interns.
OECD reviewers also included Andrew Dean and his team from the
Economics Department, Mihaylo Milovanovitch from the Directorate for
Education, Mark Keese from the Directorate for Employment, Labour
and Social Affairs, and colleagues from the Directorate for Financial
and Enterprise Affairs. The OECD would also like to thank the Swedish
International Development Co-operation Agency (SIDA) for supporting
economic research on the MENA region.
We thank Gilly Nadel and Vanessa Vallée, Communication Manager,
PSD-DAF-OECD for the editing work and Kamal Kimaoui for his excellent
graphic design and layout.
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