MENA region offers considerable opportunities in terms of tourism industries and is a relatively well-developed in some MENA countries and provides important sources of employment and revenues. According to data from UNWTO World Tourism, the Middle East, (4% share) tourism receipts increased by...

As for the economy in general, competitiveness can be characterized as the ability to sustain and improve value added using innovation has become a necessity to yield substantial returns and improve products and services by including new model of management able to respond to consumers'...

We study empirically how the positive effects of capital account liberalization on economic growth can be magnified or reduced by Corruption control. We develop a model in which Corruption control and capital account liberalization promote growth, but acts as substitutes. We test this...

In this paper we assess the relationship between the financial development and growth in some countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We try to check the specific effect of Islamic sector on the economic growth using the amount of credit issued to the private sector by...

This paper aims to test jointly two economic puzzles: the effect of financial development and Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on economic growth. Theories predict a positive effect of financial development and ICT on growth but empirical studies on these relationships produced...