MENA countries
Modeling the Future of Knowledge Economy: Evidence from SSA and MENA Countries
... and MENA countries, either through the fight against software piracy (Andrés & Asongu, 2013; Asongu, 2012ab), financial sector competition (Asongu, 2012c), production value of doctoral dissertations ...
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The nexus between electricity consumption and economic growth in MENA countries
... Several studies have been done on the linkage between the above key variables but up to now the area stills not well explored depending to countries’characteristics . Our work fills the void by extending the issue in ...
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A Versus K Revisited: Evidence from Selected MENA Countries
... The good fortunes of the MENA countries took a turn for the worse during the 90s. Most of the economies entered a phase of deep recession that took its toll on the volume of investment and consequently on ...
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Do institutions matter for FDI? A comparative analysis for the MENA countries
... components are basic determinants of FDI 6 . Not only do such phenomena cause a rise in investments risks, but they also tend to increase the volatility risk itself thus making investment planning very difficult. Chan ...
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A Common Currency Area for MENA Countries? A VAR Analysis of viability
... many MENA countries, exchange rate evolution in the Agadir countries have been one of fixed/managed systems, followed by serious overvaluation which in turn leads to crisis and devaluation followed ...
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FDI and Growth in the MENA countries: Are the GCC countries Different?
... all MENA countries have free zones except Algeria, Qatar and Saudi ...poorest countries are simply being bypassed by globalization, and the promises of the rich countries are not being ...poor ...
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Assessing the impact of the EU sponsored trade liberalization in the MENA countries
... the MENA countries by ...particular MENA countries as well as “horizontal” trade liberalization among ...the MENA countries using the augmented gravity equations derived from a ...
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The Impact of Oil Prices on the Economic Growth and Development in the MENA countries
... in MENA region will depend on the length and expectations oil prices ...exporting countries may suffer negative consequences; therefore, these countries can mitigate these consequences through ...
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The Determinants Of Capital Flight: Evidence From MENA Countries
... by MENA countries ended up as capital ...African Countries and Beja (2007) for Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand and Chipalkatti and Rishi (2001) for ...
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Financial liberalization, saving, investment and growth in MENA countries
... Since mid 1980s, a gradual liberalization of financial system has taken place in MENA countries. Interest rates subsidies to priority sectors have been reduced or eliminated. The monetary authorities ...
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Contagion In MENA Countries During The 2008 Financial Meltdown
... in MENA markets; the change in oil prices ( ) and the monetary response to the ...total MENA countries exports, changes in the international oil prices have significant impacts on MENA ...
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Trajectories in Knowledge Economy: Empirics from SSA and MENA countries
... In MENA countries, the United Arab Emirates thanks to Dubai (an internet and media city with world class standard created from scratch), demonstrates the best performance (Aubert & Reiffers, ...the ...
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Equilibrium exchange rate and misalignment In selected MENA countries
... in MENA countries aiming at opening up their economies to trade and capital flows and allowing much more weight to market mechanisms raise the need to reexamine the current exchange rate ...
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Financial Cointegration and the Vector Error Correction Model: The Case of MENA Countries
... of MENA countries into developed countries, found that MENA stock market returns were high, predictable, and lacked correlation with the major ...of MENA countries (Bahrain, ...
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Institutions and the finance–growth nexus: Empirical evidence from MENA countries
... the MENA countries to perform our empirical investigations, were that few studies focused on this ...while MENA countries had embarked on financial reforms since the mid-1980s, financial ...
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Foreign Direct Investment, Macroeconomic Instability And Economic Growth in MENA Countries
... This paper aims at analyzing the possible influence of foreign direct investment (FDI) on economic growth in the particular case of Middle East and North African countries (MENA). During the last years, the ...
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Achieving Sustainable Development Goals in MENA countries: an Analytical and Econometric Approach
... in MENA region and a similar improvement in life expectancy at birth has been ...observed. MENA countries achieved an increase in immunization coverage for 1-year-olds from 77% in 1990 to 86% in 2008 ...
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Unobserved common factors in military expenditure interactions across MENA countries
... context, countries may be allies on some issues and competitors on others, complicating the ...of MENA countries, causal analysis have found evidence of arms races between Israel and its neighbouring ...
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Impact of Knowledge-based Components on Total Factor Productivity of MENA Countries
... member countries of the MENA region, panel data were formed, and the generalized least square (GLS) method was used to estimate the intended ...when countries are ...the MENA region ...
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The nexus between electricity consumption and economic growth in MENA countries
... Several studies have been done on the linkage between the above key variables but up to now the area stills not well explored depending to countries’characteristics. Our work fills the void by extending the issue in ...
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