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Foreign Exchange Policy & Management During Structural Adjustment: The Case of Iran
Abstract An important ingredient of structural adjustment policies is the reform of the foreign exchange... Read More
Testing for Market Imperfections: Participation in Land & Labor Contracts in Turkish Agriculture
Abstract A remarkable degree of self-sufficiency is a distinguishing feature of the typical Third World... Read More
Membership in Two Customs Unions
Abstract Under certain membership property rights obeying the 'liberal ethic' and 'approved entry' axioms, we... Read More
Equity in Educational Expenditures in The Middle East & North Africa
Abstract Educational policies affect access to schooling, and consequently, determine jobs and income, both of... Read More
Comparative Study of Central, East European, Baltic & Turkish Economies With a View to Future Membership in the EU
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to comparatively study the Central European Economies (CEE),... Read More
Public Sector Employment & Labor Markets in Arab Countries: Recent Developments & Policy Implications
Abstract This paper surveys recent trends in public sector labor practices in a group of... Read More
Developments in Money Supply Issues and Policies in Developing Countries, With Reference to Stabilization and Structural Adjustment Policies: Survey of Theoretical and Empirical Literature
Abstract The choice of the instrument variables to achieve the specified objectives of stabilization and... Read More
Unemployment in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and the Required Employment Policies
Abstract The paper tackles the plight of unemployment facing the Occupied Palestinian Territories (OPT) as... Read More
Impact of Bureaucratic Inefficiency and Corruption on the Performance of Trade Liberalization Policies in Iran
Abstract Iran started a series of trade and exchange rate reforms in 1988. Before these... Read More