The MENA region
The MENA region, the virtual water trade, and the opportunity cost of agriculture
... the MENA region integrated into the virtual water trade, what is the opportunity cost of its agricultural policies, and how does it perpetuate its agricultural policies? This paper makes two principal ...
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A reform agenda for improving the delivery of ALMPs in the MENA region
... the MENA region, but most are provided in-class and are ...in MENA countries (Table 4) show that their life skills component had little or no impact on labor market outcomes, all three evaluations ...
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Linking Environmental Water Scarcity and Options for Adaptation in the MENA Region
... 2, MENA region countries are more affected by climate change since they are located in the most water strained world ...the MENA region countries located on the coast of the Mediterranean ...
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Common Risk Factors in Stock Returns in the MENA Region
... the MENA markets are less developed than the Asian or Latin American ...The MENA markets are also characterised by attributes such as economic, currency, liquidity, institu- tional and political ...the ...
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Impact of Narrative Exposure Therapy on torture survivors in the MENA region
... This study assesses the effect of NET on anxiety. Likewise, this study is the first to present somatic effects of NET, showing improvements in self-reported health as well as a reduction in pain perceptions and levels of ...
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Banking efficiency and economic growth in the MENA region
... the MENA region we use a specific measure of financial deepening:credit to the private sector in terms of GDP (CPR), considered as one of the relevant indicators of the magnitude and the extend of financial ...
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Economic Freedom And Investment Efficiency In The MENA Region
... The purpose of this study is to investigate the effect of economic freedom level on investment efficiency; predicted by market return and volatility; using data covering the period from 1996 tell 2015 for the MENA ...
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Do Changes in Weather Patterns and the Environment Lead to Migration in the MENA Region?
... the MENA region, there is substantial concern that migration may accelerate, whether one refers to tye4rms such as environmental migration, forced environmental migration, environmentally motivated ...
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Cost Of Debt And Dividend Policy: Evidence From The MENA Region
... the MENA region (Bahrain, Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia, and United Arab Emirates) during the region between 2005 and ...
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Demand for Military Spending: The case of the MENA Region
... the region, as the bulk of arms purchases have largely been conventional heavy weaponry, such as combat aircraft, armored vehicles, and missile ...the MENA region does exhibit high income elasticity ...
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The Impacts of Climate Change in the MENA Region and the Water-Energy Nexus
... Specific impacts of climate change on water availability and water security in the MENA Region. 145[r] ...
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Data Collection for the Study on Climate Change and Migration in the MENA Region
... 7 In Morocco, the first site was Chichaoua in the Plains Region. Chichaoua Province has been affected by drought over recent decades. The pattern has been accompanied by severe drought events. The second ...
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Focus Countries for the Study on Climate Change and Migration in the MENA Region
... littoral region of the north is the most densely populated, with 63 percent of the population on four percent of the ...coastal region, while the region of the High Plains dominated by semi-nomadic ...
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How Do Households Cope with and Adapt to Climate Change in the MENA Region?
... Table 1: Household Coping Mechanisms to Deal with Climate Change and Shocks % Selling or pawning livestock All Country Algeria Egypt Morocco Syria Yemen Quintiles Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4 Q5 Losses L[r] ...
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The Effects of Economic Dependency on the Implementation of the European Neighbourhood Policy in the MENA region
... the MENA can underline the main assumption of MENA economic dependence on the ...the MENA, giving around 10 billion dollars yearly, while Germany comes second with around 5 ...the MENA, with ...
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Do RTAs Increase Bilateral Trade in the MENA Region?
... Table 7 shows that AA has a negative sign on the coefficient of RTA2 and positive on RTAE and RTAI. These results can not be elaborated because AA does not effectively affect trade in MENA regions. AA contributes ...
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State Divestitures and Bank Performance: Empirical Evidence from the Middle East and North Africa Region
... Developing countries are increasingly engaging in restructuring activities, reforms and divestiture of the shareholdings of state-owned banks in private and joint venture banks, despite the prevalence of government ...
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Does Democracy Increase Bilateral Trade in MENA Region?
... 1960, MENA was one of the most undemocratic region in the ...the MENA region have low (exclusive) political inclusiveness and only a small proportion have good policy coordination (Saudi ...
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The epidemiology of Norovirus in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region: a systematic review
... While the status of NoV-associated AGE is well estab- lished in many parts of the world, limited data exist about the contribution of NoV to the burden of diar- rheal disease in countries of the MENA ...
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Democratisation in the Middle East and North Africa : perspectives from democracy support
... the MENA region in the short term, then, democracy support may see a lifeline where it can aim to show that it has improved its game, while the much bigger picture of millions of people still living under ...
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