Explaining Growth in the Middle East
- 1st Edition, Volume 278 - November 14, 2006
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Editors: Jeffrey B. Nugent, Hashem Pesaran
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 4 6 6 7 7 - 4
This book is about the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This region is generally perceived as having experienced the most disappointing growth performance over the last… Read more
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Request a sales quoteThis book is about the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. This region is generally perceived as having experienced the most disappointing growth performance over the last couple of decades of any region in the world with the possible exception of Sub-Sahara Africa. Despite the region’s immense endowment of natural resources, its per capita income is often viewed as having stagnated. At the same time, most economies of the region have been characterized by extremely high volatility, a condition only partly attributable to the fluctuating price of oil.
*MENA region has not been as comprehensively covered as other regions of the world (i.e., Latin America, East Asia, South Asia and Sub-Sahara Africa)
*The prominence of the MENA region in the global energy markets and the world political system makes this a necessary read
*Topics of interest are wide ranging and diverse, ranging from dictatorships, civil wars, terrorism and water shortages, to more economic problems arising from volatile oil prices, barriers to trade and foreign investment, dominance of public enterprises, and low skill work forces
*The prominence of the MENA region in the global energy markets and the world political system makes this a necessary read
*Topics of interest are wide ranging and diverse, ranging from dictatorships, civil wars, terrorism and water shortages, to more economic problems arising from volatile oil prices, barriers to trade and foreign investment, dominance of public enterprises, and low skill work forces
Economists, graduate students and researchers of economics especially the MENA region. Secondary audience is policy makers of MENA and other regions of the world.
Preface
1 Introduction
I. The Main Themes in the MENA Region as a Whole
2 The Determinants of Growth in The Middle East by Samir Makdisi, Zeki Fattah and Imed Limam
3 A Re-examination of the Political Economy of Growth Hadi Salehi Esfahani
4 Financial Development and Growth by Hasan Ersel and Magda Kandil
5 Labor Markets and Economic Growth in the MENA Region by Christopher Pissarides and Marie-Ange Veganzones-Varoudakis
6 Microeconomics of Growth: The Role of Households by Djavad Salehi- Isfahani
II. Country Specific Studies
7 Sources of Economic Growth and Technical Progress in Egypt by Hanaa Kheir-El-Din and Tarek Abdelfattah Moursi
8 Sources of Growth and Output Gap for the Turkish Economy by KIVILCIM METÝN ÖZCAN , ÜMÝT ÖZLALE, and ÇAÐRI SARIKAYA
9 Economic Growth in Iran: 1950-2003, by Ahmed Jalali-Naini
10 The Political Economy of Development Policy in Tunisia by Mohamed Bechri and Sonia Naccaache
11 What Explains Algeria’s Poor Growth Performance? by Mohamed Chemingui and Moataz El Said
12 Explaining Growth in an Oil-Dependent Economy: The Case of the UAE, by Adam Elhiraika and Annas Hamed
13 Institutions, Household Decisions and Economic Growth in Egypt by Ragui Assaad
1 Introduction
I. The Main Themes in the MENA Region as a Whole
2 The Determinants of Growth in The Middle East by Samir Makdisi, Zeki Fattah and Imed Limam
3 A Re-examination of the Political Economy of Growth Hadi Salehi Esfahani
4 Financial Development and Growth by Hasan Ersel and Magda Kandil
5 Labor Markets and Economic Growth in the MENA Region by Christopher Pissarides and Marie-Ange Veganzones-Varoudakis
6 Microeconomics of Growth: The Role of Households by Djavad Salehi- Isfahani
II. Country Specific Studies
7 Sources of Economic Growth and Technical Progress in Egypt by Hanaa Kheir-El-Din and Tarek Abdelfattah Moursi
8 Sources of Growth and Output Gap for the Turkish Economy by KIVILCIM METÝN ÖZCAN , ÜMÝT ÖZLALE, and ÇAÐRI SARIKAYA
9 Economic Growth in Iran: 1950-2003, by Ahmed Jalali-Naini
10 The Political Economy of Development Policy in Tunisia by Mohamed Bechri and Sonia Naccaache
11 What Explains Algeria’s Poor Growth Performance? by Mohamed Chemingui and Moataz El Said
12 Explaining Growth in an Oil-Dependent Economy: The Case of the UAE, by Adam Elhiraika and Annas Hamed
13 Institutions, Household Decisions and Economic Growth in Egypt by Ragui Assaad
- Edition: 1
- Volume: 278
- Published: November 14, 2006
- Imprint: Elsevier Science
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN: 9780080466774
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Jeffrey B. Nugent
Affiliations and expertise
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USAHP
Hashem Pesaran
Affiliations and expertise
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, U.K.Read Explaining Growth in the Middle East on ScienceDirect