Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa: Challenges and Prospects

ISBN-13: 9781137486462 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 227 str.

Mohamed Sami Ben Ali; Mohamed Sami Ben Ali

Opis

The economies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are characterized by public sector dominance in economic activity that ensures a large part of domestic production and relies on domestic financing resources. In most cases, these resources fail to meet the economies' needs. After radically liberalizing their economic policies, the countries in the region accelerated their development. As a result, MENA countries now play a crucial role in regional and global economic growth.Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa contains theoretical and empirical studies on macro- and microeconomic issues covering panel studies and individual countries. Using cases from individual countries, this collection offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders in the region. Each chapter in this book is dedicated to a different subject in economic development but articulated around a common region, which is a unique experience in this field.

Spis treści

1. The Role of Institutions in Economic Development; Mohamed Sami Ben Ali and Sorin M.S. Krammer
2. Sources of Economic Growth in MENA Countries: Technological Progress, Physical or Human Capital Accumulations?; Senay Acikgoz, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali and Merter Mert
3. The Middle East and North Africa: Cursed by Natural resources?; Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Lara Cockx and Nathalie Francken
4. Workers ' ' Remittances and Economic Development: Which Role for Education?; Eugenie W. M. Maïga, Mina Baliamoune-Lutz and Mohamed Sami Ben Ali
5. The Inflation-Central Bank Independence Nexus: Where Do MENA Countries Stand?; Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Etienne Farvaque and Muhammad Azmat Hayat
6. Corruption and Economic Development; Mohamed Sami Ben Ali and Shrabani Saha
7. The Finance-Growth Nexus: Which Factors Can Interfere?; Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Nahla Samargandi and Kazi Sohag
8. Trade Diversification and Intra-Regional Trade in North Africa; Audrey Verdier-Chouchane, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali and Charlotte Karagueuzian
9. Foreign Direct Investment in Middle Eastern and North African Countries; John Chukwudi Anyanwu, Nadège Désirée Yaméogo and Mohamed Sami Ben Ali

O autorze

Audrey Verdier-Chouchane, African Development Bank Charlotte Karagueuzian, African Development Bank Etienne Farvaque, University of Lille, France Eugenie W. M. Maïga, Université de Koudougou, Burkina Faso John Chukwudi Anyanwuis, African Development Bank Kazi Sohag, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Lara Cockx, University of Leuven, Belgium Merter Mert, Gazi University, Turkey Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, University of North Florida, USA Muhammad Azmat Hayat, University of the Punjab, Pakistan Nadège Désirée Yaméogo, African Development Bank Nahla Samargandi, Brunel University, UK & King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia Nathalie Francken, University of Antwerp, Belgium Senay Acikgoz, Gazi University, Turkey Shrabani Saha, University of Lincoln, UK Sorin M. S. Krammer, University of Groningen, Netherlands