Arab Competitiveness Roundtable |
Unveiling the Arab World Competitiveness Report 2005
2 April 2005, Doha, Qatar
 An exceptional grouping of Arab public figures, experts and business leaders will come together in Doha to discuss the 2005 Arab World Competitiveness Report.
The first edition of the Report in 2002-2003 helped to create awareness among Arab business leaders and government officials of the need to enhance competitiveness in the region in order to foster growth and create jobs for a fast-growing population.
Efforts are now underway to reform the Arab economies:
An Arab Business Council was created to be the voice of the Arab private sector and to encourage economic reforms across the regionRepresentatives from Arab civil society, the private sector, academia, and government prepared an agenda for Arab world reform at the Alexandria Library in March 2004The G-8 and the OECD are supporting initiatives to improve the investment climate, education and productivity in the Arab regionThe governments of Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and the UAE are increasingly opening their cabinets to members of the private sector and liberalizing their national economies while encouraging more regional integration.
Two years after the first edition of the Arab World Competitiveness Report, the question is no longer whether Arab governments should implement economic reforms to enhance competitiveness, but how this can best be done.
The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2005 will attempt to provide the answers to this pressing question. Its findings will be disclosed to a select group of business leaders, ministers and experts from the entire Arab world and beyond, and discussed with the authors, political leaders and members of the World Economic Forum during the Arab Competitiveness Roundtable.
Co-Chairs
M. Shafik Gabr, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Artoc Group for Investment & Development, Egypt; Chairman of the Arab Business Council
Khaled Janahi, Chairman of the Executive Committee, Shamil Bank of Bahrain, Bahrain; Vice Chairman of the Arab Business Council
For more information on this Roundtable, please contact arabroundtable@weforum.org | |
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