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The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2013
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … misalignment, including in recent years, the exchange rates in Morocco and Tunisia have broadly reflected the underlying … countries' real exchange rate misalignments during the past three decades. While Egypt experienced periods of substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071447
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Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected MENA Countries : An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysit - 2021
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315083
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Did the Arab Spring Reduce MENA Countries' Growth?
Arayssi, Mahmoud - 2019
This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries data during period 2005-2016. Using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation, the paper estimates a growth model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870335
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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies : The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'
Barnett, Andy - 2013
Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086661
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Enterprise, Organization, and Technology in China : A Socialist Experiment, 1950−1971
Scranton, Philip - 2019
-- 4. Commerce and Socialist Construction -- 5. Industry: From Trial-and-Error to Technology Reform -- 6. Agriculture as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012396099
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Government and Merchant Finance in Anglo-Gascon Trade, 1300–1500
Blackmore, Robert - 2020 - 1st ed. 2020.
The Late Middle Ages (c.1300–c.1500) saw the development of many of the key economic institutions of the modern unitary nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth century, taxes on trade became increasingly significant contributors to government finances,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399224
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Economic Instability and Stabilization Policy : On the Path from Crises to State Directed Economies
Pauly, Ralf - 2021
Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: views on economic crises in the 21st century -- Chapter 2. A review of the history of the economy and its concepts: change is a constant -- Chapter 3. Keynes' and Minsky's macroeconomics -- Chapter 4. Outlook on the transformation of the market economy and its...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012508336
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The economy and business environment of Vietnam
Macdonald, Roderick J. (ed.) - 2020
: Challenges Facing the Privatization Process -- Chapter 4. Participating in Global Value Chains: The Case of Small and Medium … recent developments. Further chapters cover privatization and the expansion of the private sector, participation in global …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012399638
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The Political and Economic History of North Cyprus : A Discordant Polity
Ekici, Tufan - 2019
Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: What kind of Polity? -- Chapter 3: Economic and Institutional Foundations of Turkish Cypriot Governance and the ‘ITEM’ Law -- Chapter 4: From Separation to Convergence: The Economic Development of the Republic of Cyprus and Turkification of Northern...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012398492
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Taxation, Politics, and Protest in Ireland, 1662–2016
Kanter, Douglas (ed.); Walsh, Patrick (ed.) - 2019
This book examines the politics of taxation in Ireland between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Combining political, economic, and policy history, it contributes to a growing interdisciplinary literature on public finance, while also providing context for the ongoing debate on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012397040