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Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. Overview -- The Need for a New Form of Development -- A Knowledge-Based Development Process -- Readiness for the Knowledge Economy -- The Economic and Institutional Regime -- Human Resources -- Innovation -- Telecommunications and Information Infrastructure -- New Visions and Strategies -- 2. The Challenge: Changing the Growth Model -- A Distorted Development Process -- Insufficient Growth in an Increasingly Competitive Environment -- The Need to Change the Development Model -- 3. Knowledge and Economic Development: Recent Trends -- The Knowledge-Based Economy -- Key Pillars of Knowledge-Based Economies -- The Knowledge Economy and Economic Performance -- Guidelines and Lessons from International Experience -- A New Mindset for Government Action -- 4. MENA Countries' Readiness for the Knowledge Economy: A Snapshot -- Overall Knowledge Economy Readiness -- Economic Incentives and Institutional Framework -- Education -- Information and Communications Technology Infrastructure -- Innovation -- 5. Social and Economic Frameworks -- Power and Social Structures -- Investment Climate -- Trade and Economic Integration -- Attitudes to Knowledge, Innovation, and Management -- 6. Education and Training -- Cultural and Linguistic Issues -- Education and Social Expectations -- Training and Job Markets -- An Education Strategy within a Lifelong Learning Perspective -- Increasing the Efficacy of Educational and Training Institutions -- 7. Innovation and Research -- Poorly Developed Innovation Systems -- R&D Institutions -- Innovation Climate in Industry -- Scientific and Technological Performance -- Establishing a Coherent Innovation Policy -- Conclusion -- 8. Telecommunications and the Information Infrastructure -- Telecommunications and Related Policies -- Policy Trends -- The Internet.

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