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Enhancing Competition in A Post-Revolutionary Arab Context: Does the Turkish Experience Provide any Lessons?
The purpose of this paper is to explore the possible role of the regulatory environment... Read More
Arab Corporatism
This paper argues that the modern economic systems of Egypt and Tunisia can best be... Read More
Structural Adjustment and Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
Abstract Since the 1980s, the majority of countries in the MENA region facing severe exchange... Read More
International Agreements and the Environment
Abstract This paper focuses upon the links between trade and the environment, and the use... Read More
Planning and Macroeconomic Stabilization in Iran
Abstract This paper presents an account of the main economic developments in the Iranian economy... Read More
Multiple Trade Shocks and Partial Liberalization: Dutch Disease and the Egyptian Economy
Abstract The multiple external shocks experienced by the Egyptian economy are analyzed using a series... Read More
Regional Integration Among the Maghreb Countries and Free Trade with the European Union
Abstract This paper explores the potential benefits and losses from integration in the Maghreb region,... Read More
Changing the Role of the State in Subsidized Housing: The Case of a Developing Environment
Abstract The study discusses the changing role of the state in subsidized housing with the... Read More
Public Spending, Political Structure and Growth: Evidence for the Middle East and North Africa from an International Perspective
Abstract Based on an endogenous model in which government spending responds to lobbying, the effects... Read More