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Have Islamic Banks Been More Resistant Than Conventional Banks to the 2007-2008 Financial Crisis?
Abstract The recent global financial crisis has induced a series of failures of many conventional... Read More
Business Cycle Leading Indicators for the Tunisian Economy
Abstract This paper investigates the Tunisian business cycle with an objective of constructing an index... Read More
A Unified Framework to Decomposing Inequality with Illustrations to Some Arab Countries
Abstract It is common to decompose the inequality indices of the General Entropy class to... Read More
Migration Aspirations among Young People in Egypt: Who Desires to Migrate?
Abstract International migration has been a vital aspect of labor markets in the Middle East... Read More
Board Independence and Corporate Fraud: The Case of Tunisian Firms
Abstract The question we address in this paper is: what is the role played by... Read More
How Do Women Entrepreneurs Perform? Empirical Evidence from Egypt
Abstract The purpose of this paper is twofold: 1) To explain how women owned MSEs... Read More
Autocracies, Democratization, and Development in the Arab Region
Abstract The burning questions facing the Arab region today are: will the uprisings/revolutions of Tunisia... Read More
Factors of Career Mobility in Egypt by Gender
Abstract The paper focuses on a critical determinant, not only of females participating in the... Read More
The Determinants of Expansion of SMEs under a Partial Credit Guarantee Scheme: The Case of Lebanon
Abstract The aim of this paper is to assess the impact of the Lebanese credit... Read More