This paper aims primarily at assessing development strategies to achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in Egypt.  It is based on the outcome of a regional research project directed to evaluate development strategies to achieve the MDGs in the Arab Countries. Reports on the progress of...

For oil producing countries it is important to share rationally oil revenues between current expenditure and savings. The purpose of this paper is to study what impact will have change of the oil revenues accumulation on the dynamics of macroeconomic indicators.Modeling of dynamic stochastic...

1. Rationale/Objective Evaluation of healthcare reforms has been an integral part of healthcare system studies. In Uganda the effectiveness of the healthcare reforms that were systematically undertaken since 1992, has been widely studied. The partial equilibrium studies evaluating the reforms...

One of the key factors behind the growth of global trade in recent decades is an increase in intermediate input as a result of the development of vertical production networks (Feensta, 1998). Manufacturing goods are no longer produced in a single country. Production processes are subdivided into...

Universal primary education ranges prominently among the Millennium Development Goals and is thus regarded as an important component of human development. In addition, education is widely believed to allow a country to access a higher steady state growth path by accumulating human capital....

Une ré-évaluation de l'impact macroéconomique et social des accords de partenariat économique sur l'économie ivoirienne.Modèle d'Équilibre Général Calculable avec prise en compte d'effets externes.Une ré évaluation de l'impact négatif des APE sur les performances économiques et la...

Recent work on human capital accumulation has tended to abstract from population change. This is a reasonable simplification when analysing economies with relatively static populations, such as high income countries. However, many low income countries are undergoing rapid population change,...

Venezuela is one of the countries with high levels of subsidies to the domestic energy consumption. Studies reveal that these subsidies amounted to 15 billion dollars in 2010 and threaten the strength of the energy sector (Villarroel (2012)). Energy prices have indeed been frozen since the 90s...

The international Monitory Fund (IMF) has been working with Sudan since 1997 to implement macroeconomic reforms including a managed float of the exchange rate (EXR). The IMF sees the EXR flexibility as key to safeguard and rebuild foreign exchange reserves and essential to meet the international...

OPEC claims that the aim of this organization is to coordinate and unify the petroleum policies among its member countries to ensure a secure and stable income provision to its member countries; an efficient, economic and regular supply of petroleum to consuming nations; and a fair return on...