Cover -- Preface -- Introduction to the Second Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Ch 1. Introduction -- Addressing the Challenge -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1A -- Ch 2. Growth, Productivity, and Income -- Identifying the Comparators -- Relative International Performance -- Domestic Growth over Time -- Investment and Growth -- Sources of Differences in Growth Rates -- Conclusion -- Ch 3. Welfare, Happiness, and Discontent -- Social Indicators -- Happiness -- Discontent -- Conclusion -- Ch 4. The Demographic Challenge and the Role of Globalization -- Demographic Changes -- Employment Generation and Productivity Growth -- International Trade Performance -- Capital Flows -- Financial-Market Development -- Conclusion -- Appendix 4A Labor Force Absorption -- Ch 5. Religion, Institutions, and Growth -- Religious Affiliation and Growth Across Countries -- Legal Systems and Growth -- Corruption and Growth -- Concluding Remarks -- Ch 6. Economic Policies and Their Effects -- Policies in Arab Economies -- Measuring Policy Effects -- Technology and Productivity Growth -- Conclusion -- Appendix 6A Interaction of Education and Technology -- Ch 7. Attitudes, Interest Groups, and Reform -- Popular Attitudes -- Elite Attitudes -- Impediments to Reform -- Appendix 7A The Pew Survey -- Ch 8. Global Engagement -- Membership in Multilateral Institutions -- Role of Preferential Arrangements -- Conclusion -- Appendix 8A Select Regional Organizations -- Appendix 8B US Preferential Trade Arrangements with Select Arab Countries -- Ch 9. Risk, Credibility, and Supply Response -- Domestic Entrepreneurship -- Reversing the Brain Drain -- Role of Foreign Investment -- Affinity, Democracy, and Risk -- Conclusion -- Appendix 9A -- Ch 10. Authoritarianism, Uncertainty, and Prospects for Change -- Path to Political Reform -- Implications for International Exchange.

Prospects for Change -- Appendix 10A Quantitative Modeling of Political Regimes -- Ch 11. Conclusion -- Identifying the Constraints -- Designing Solutions: An Example -- Political Economy of Reform -- Concluding Thoughts -- Postscript -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.