Areas of Interest:

• International Finance
• Public Finance
• Economic Development
• Labor Economics 

Education:

• Ph.D., Economics, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University, 2002
• M.A., Economics, University of Manchester, United Kingdom, 1990

Experience:

• Associate Professor, United Arab Emirates University, College of Business and Economics, Department of Innovation in Government and Society (Formerly Department of Economics and Finance), 2011-Present
• Visiting Scholar, United Nations University-World Institute of Development Economics Research, Helsinki, July-August 2009.
• Assistant Professor, United Arab Emirates University, College of Business and Economics, Department of Economics, 2004-2011

Latest of Publications:

• Mina, Wasseem. 2020. “Social Protection Expenditures and Performance-Pay” Review of Development Finance, 10 (2): 38-61.
• Mina, Wasseem. 2020. “Labor Market Policies and Youth Unemployment in the GCC Countries” Empirical Economics Letters, 19 (2). ISSN 1681-8997
• Mina, Wasseem. 2020 “Do GCC Market-Oriented Labor Policies Encourage Inward FDI Flows?” Research in International Business and Finance (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ribaf.2019.101092)
• Mina, Wasseem. 2019. “Diaspora and Government Welfare Spending: Do Migrant Remittances Increase Public Social Protection?” Economic Notes (DOI: 10.1111/ecno.12141).
• Mina, Wasseem. 2017. “Institutional Clusters and FDI Flows to the MENA Region”, In Empirical Studies on Economics of Innovation, Public Economics and Management: Proceedings of the 18th Eurasia Business and Economics Society Conference, edited by M.H. Bilgin et al. (pp. 243-252). DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-50164-2_14. Part of the Eurasian Studies in Business and Economics book series (EBES, volume 6).