The Three Arab Worlds

Bibliographic Data

ID4028966
AuthorsJames E Rauch (University of California, San Diego, in La Jolla, California; National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts.), Scott Kostyshak (Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey.)
Year2009
Volume23
Issue3
Pages165-188
Publication date2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Journal of Economic Perspectives (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0895-3309 • E-ISSN: 1944-7965
PublisherAmerican Economic Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1257/jep.23.3.165
OpenAlexW2035974096
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited12

Given the attention currently focused on the Arab world in part as a result of adjustments in U.S. foreign policy, a fresh look at Arab socioeconomic performance is in order. The Arab world is defined by language rather than ethnicity. The League of Arab States, formed in 1945, consists of all countries in which (a dialect of) Arabic is the spoken language of the majority. It is useful to compare the human development diversity of the Arab world to that of Latin America, another vast geographic area defined by language and culture. Our strategy in this article is therefore to disaggregate the Arab world into Arab sub-Saharan Africa, Arab fuel-endowed economies, and a remainder we call the Arab Mediterranean, and to compare these three Arab worlds to non-Arab sub-Saharan Africa, non-Arab fuel endowed economies, and the rest of the non-Arab world. We will evaluate Arab socioeconomic progress from 1970 to as close to the present as the data allow

Arabic · Development economics · Economics · Economy · Ethnic group · Geography · Latin Americans · League · Linguistics · Middle East · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Culture, Economy, and Development Studies · Demography · International Development and Aid · Law · Natural Resources and Economic Development

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