MEDJ – ERF Middle East Development Journal: December 2023
No.
Vol. 15, No. 2
Publisher
ERF
Date
December, 2023
Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
Wide-ranging US sanctions against Iran in the past decade were in large part imposed to harm the living standards of ordinary Iranians in the hope that their leaders would submit to US demands to limit their nuclear program. In this study, I use extensive survey data to assess...
Pages: 189-221
Ahmad Alawadhi, Mohammad Alali, Shaikha Al-Fulaij, Weam Behbahani, Marwa Al-Musallam & Sulayman Al-Qudsi
This paper uses micro-level data from the 2013 official Kuwait Household expenditure survey covering 2961 households; and three 2020 COVID-19 shock-related CEO, labor force and household surveys to juxtapose the consumption profiles of foreign workers in Kuwait. ....
Pages: 222-240
Ashraf Mishrif & Asharul Khan
The impact of COVID-19 has badly affected most companies across the economy, with many of them claiming losses in revenue and human resources. As such claimed losses are hard to quantify, we aim to understand the nature and scale of the shortfalls in the company’s...
Pages: 241-260
Andrzej Cieślik & Sarhad Hamza
This paper studies the determinants of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) across the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) countries between 2009 and 2017 using a modified knowledge-capital model of the multinational firm. In particular, we investigate the importance of institutional quality factors...
Pages: 261-290
Riadh Ben Jelili
The present paper extends previous work by Burger et al. ([2016]. Risky business: Political instability and sectoral greenfield foreign direct investment in the Arab world. World Bank Economic Review, 30(2), 306–331. https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhv030) that has attempted to investigate empirically the impact of political instability on FDI flows into the Arab host region...
Pages: 291-310
Mustapha Kamel Nabli
The paper provides a comprehensive comparison of the experiences of debt accumulation and of the debt crises which took place within less than a decade during the second half of the nineteenth century in Tunisia, Egypt and the Ottoman Empire. The comparison covers the period from the 1850s to the 1880s, as the three countries were attempting to modernize...
Pages: 311-328
Roberto Zagha
Nabli's and Nugent's book is a multi-dimension review of Tunisia's growth and development. It follows several lines of enquiry which include a historical, political and institutional analysis, as well as an analysis of the economic policies pursued in different periods. It concludes with an assessment of Tunisia's recent descent in political turmoil and regression, and its prospects for recovery....
Pages: 329-333