Economic Implications of the Arab Spring: A Model for Future Development

Abstract

The Arab Spring has suddenly overturned dictatorships in a number of countries, which now have a chance to reverse decades of stagnation which has left the countries behind in development and the populations impoverished. We propose a framework which can be useful in guiding policy as these countries rebuild. It consists of six key management elements, ‘M’s, applied to three key domains, ‘E’s, which are all intimately interconnected. We briefly introduce how the framework can be applied to Egypt, probably the most important Arab Spring countries because of its traditional leading role in the Arab world.