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Workshops

• Workshop 1: Trade, Investment, and the New Economy
  
• Workshop 2: Employment and Unemployment in the MENA Region
  
• Workshop 3: Empowering Local Government Institutions in the MENA Region
  
• Workshop 4: Fostering Digital Inclusion: The Role of ICT in Development
  

Special Sessions

• Special Session 1: Youth and the Skills for the Future
• Special Session 2: Women in the Arab World: Towards Equal Citizenship?
• Special Session 3: Globalization and Civil Society in the Arab World
• Special Session 4: The Potential of Partnerships: The Case of Private Sector Participation in the Water Sector
• Special Session 5: The Regional Mediascape 2002: Tensions and Opportunities
• Special Session 6: Corporate Social Responsibility

Plenaries

• Opening Ceremony
• Plenary 1: MENA at the Crossroads
• Plenary 2: MENA and the Way Forward
• Plenary 3: Proceedings and Looking Ahead
• Closing Ceremony

Workshop 1: Trade, Investment, and the New Economy

• Ghanem, Shihab. Mohammed Bin Rashid Technology Park (MRTP).
• Ersel, Hasan and Wafik Grais. Free Trade in Financial Services in the MENA Region
• Fanelli, José María and Rohinton Medhora. The Emerging International Financial Architecture and Its Implications for Domestic Financial Architecture.
• Belghazi, Saâd. Impacts des Politiques Commerciales sur l'Emploi dans le Secteur Marocain de l'Habillement.
• Page, John and van Gelder, Linda. Tables.
• Page, John and Linda Van Gelder. Globalization, Growth, and Poverty Reduction in the Middle East and North Africa, 1970-1999.
• Laird, Sam. DOHA: Does the DDA Reverse the ADD.
• Safadi, Raed. Building Trade Capacity, Behind the Broader Agenda.
• Rohinton, Medhora and Fanelli, Jose Maria. The Emerging International Financial Architecture and Its Implication for Domestic Financial Architecture.
• Dasgupta, Dipak; Nabli, Mustapha Kamel; Srinivasan, T.G. and Varoudakis, Aristomene. The Post Doha Agenda, Issues and Implications for the MENA Region.
• Mashayekhi, Mina. Audiovisual Services, Issues for MENA Region.
• Devlin, Julia and Yee, Peter. Global Links to Regional Networks: Trade Logistics in MENA Countries.
• Srinivasan, T.G. Globalization in MENA - A Long Term Perspective

• Abdel Gadir Ali, Ali. Building Human Capital for Economic Development in the Arab Countries.
• Fergany, Nader. Aspect of Labor Migration and Unemployment in the Arab Region.
• Galal, Ahmed. The Paradox of Education and Unemployment in Egypt.
• Girgis, Maurice. Would Nationals and Asians Replace Arab workers in the GCC?
• Handoussa, Heba. Employment, Budget Priorities and Microenterprises.
• Keller, Jennifer and Mustapha K. Nabli. The Macroeconomics of Labor Market Outcomes in MENA over the 1990s: How Growth Has Failed To Keep Pace With A Burgeoning Labor Market.
• Radwan, Samir. Employment and Unemployment in Egypt: Conventional Problems, Unconventional Remedies.
• Keller, Jennifer and Nabli, Mustapha K. The Macroeconomics of Labor Market Outcomes in MENA over the 1990s: How Growth Has Failed to Keep Pace with a Burgeoning Labor Market.
• Fawzy, Samiha. Investment Policies and Unemployment in Egypt (English).
• Fawzy, Samiha. Investment Policies and Unemployment in Egypt (Arabic).
• Kanaan, Taher H. and Kardoosh, Marwan A. Employment and the Labour Market in Jordan.

• Atallah, Sami. How well is Lebanon fiscally decentralized?
• Fawaz, Mona. Reflections on Best Practices in Governance in ESCWA Countries.
• Ghanem, El Sayed A. M. A. Fiscal Decentralization in Egypt.
• Hamid, Gamal M. Localizing the Local: Reflections on the Experience of Local Authorities in Sudan.
• Harb, Mona. Pratiques comparées de participation dans deux municipalités de la banlieue de Beyrouth: Ghobeyri et Bourj Brajneh
• Malkawi, Fuad. Amalgamation is a Solution in Jordan.
• Naciri, Khalid. Les cadres consitutionnels, legaux et administratifs du gouvernement local au Maroc.
• Sader, Dima. (in Microsoft Word)
  تجربة العمل البلدي في لبنان:
  الإنجازات والعوائق والتحديات
• Sawi, Ali. Governors Without Governance: Constitutional, Legal and Administrative Frameworks of Local Government in Egypt.
• Sbihi Mohamed. Decentralisation fiscale: l'experience marocaine.
• Tajbakhsh, Kian. Assessing the Performance of Elected Local Government in Iran.
• Zyani, Brahim. Décentralisation et réforme administrative au MAROC.

• Abdel-Rahim, Dr. Saqer, Dr. Asad Abu Libdeh, Fakher Sawalha, Mohammed K. Odeh. Universal Networking Language (UNL): a Means to Bridge the Digital Divide.
• Accascina, Gabriel. Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) for Development in the Arab States: Overview, considerations and parallels with Asia.
• Al-Tawil, Kalid and Sadiq Sait. E-Governance - Where we Stand?
• Al-Qasem, Laith. Attracting Foreign Direct Investment as a Means of Developing ICT.
• Boudriga, Noureddine. Digital Certification Practice and Achievements in Tunisia.
• Boudriga, Noureddine and Mohammad Obaidat. Driving Citizens to Information and Communications Technologies.
• Curtin, Caitlin. E-Commerce Reality: Thoughts On Using E-Commerce Today to Achieve Regional Development Goals
• Dodds, Paul. E-Commerce Reality: Legislative considerations and policy issues
• Fathi, Ekram. The Development of CIT Industry in Egypt
• Hurst, Lyle. Bringing in the New Neighbors: Strategic Choices in Designing Interactive Teleservices Delivery Centers
• Hurst, Lyle. Global Corporations and Digital Inclusion
• Hurst, Lyle. Targeting and Developing Service Export Markets: an Action Plan for Defining Teleservices Ventures in the Developing World.
• Johansson, Ylva. Untitled.
• Majaj, Saleh. E-Services and Development: Bringing Information Technology to the Development Community
• Malhas, Hazem. Trailblazers...Overcoming the Odds.
• Obaidat, Mohammad S. Research and Development in Information and Communications Technologies: Challenges, Trends, and Recommendations
• Rochdi, Najat. 'Fostering citizen digital inclusion'
• Saidi, Nasser and Hala Yared. eGovernment: Technology for Good Governance, Development and Democracy in the MENA countries
• Sukkar, Nabil. The Digital Divide and Development.
• H.E. Dr. Khaled Toukan. Towards Digital Inclusion: Learning "e" and 'e-learning'
• Yussof, M. Radzi bin M. A National Initiative: Presenting a Success Story.

• Breeze, Janet. Setting the Scene.
• Paker, Can. Introductory remarks.
• Rachid, Rachid M. Corporate Social Responsibility.
• Sabanci, Guler. Today's responsible companies will be tomorrow's profitable companies. The challenge; converging values with value creation.
  
• Reading List.
• Useful Internet Links.
• Rondinelli, Dennis A. and Michael A. Berry. Environmental citizenship in multinational corporations: social responsibility and sustainable development.