MENA economies have been experiencing moderate to high growth in GDP with stagnant growth in employment, a phenomenon of "jobless growth" since the 1970s. This dire situation in MENA is a result of the existing social contract, in which the state is the main provider of public sector jobs and...

FC -- Praise -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- A new narrative emerging -- PART I: OUR AFFAIR WITH GROWTH -- 1 Desired - celebrating growth -- 2 Fuelled - resource-based growth -- 3 Borrowed - a growth of liabilities -- 4...

The digital divide is the non-distribution of technologic infrastructure use equiponderant within the society and an inequality in proportion to the tendency to technological use within the social categories. There is a significant correlation between the dissemination of information to the...