MEDJ – ERF Middle East Development Journal: July 2022
No.
Vol. 14, Issue 1
Publisher
ERF and Taylor and Francis
Date
July, 2022
Topic
O1. Economic Development
Ragui Assaad
I argue in this paper that although recent developments had temporarily reduced demographic pressures on the Egyptian labor market, such pressures will return with a vengeance in the next decade. The sizable echo generation born between 2005 and 2015 is the reflection of the large youth bulge...
Pages: 1-31
Nasser Badra
This study empirically identifies fiscal shocks and traces their effect on GDP and its components using structural VAR framework in a highly indebted economy of Lebanon. Empirical findings of this study point to an inefficiency of fiscal policy in stimulating economic activities...
Pages: 32-42
Nora Aboushady, Yasmine Kamal and Chahir Zaki
This paper proposes a comprehensive assessment of the effect of different trade barriers (tariffs, non-tariff measures and services restrictions) on wage disparities in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. We look at wage disparities...
Pages: 43-69
Brahim Guizani and Agata Wierzbowska
This study assesses the actual monetary policy stance in three countries in the MENA region, namely, Tunisia (between 2000 and 2017) and Egypt and Morocco (between 2007 and 2017), based on the Taylor rule framework. Especially, it explores the impact of transition periods...
Pages: 70-94
Shereen Nosier, Aya El-Karamani and Reham Salah
This study provides updated estimates for the rate of return to an additional year of schooling in Egypt. Additionally, it addresses the major issues of heterogeneous returns and endogeneity of educational attainment. Instrumental variable quantile regression along...
Pages: 95-117
Mohamed Sami Ben Ali and Boubacar Siddy Diallo
This study aims to assess whether or not the presence of credit bureaus is associated with more or fewer financing constraints while considering the interfering effect of corruption in a sample of 18 countries in Eastern Europe and the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region during the period 2011–2014...
Pages: 118-132
Abdulmuttalip Pilatin and Hasan Ayaydin
The aim of this study is to empirically examine the relationship between credit growth, credit quality and social capital of all commercial banks operating in Turkey for a period of twelve years between 2007 and 2018 on the basis of 81 provinces...
Pages: 133-170
Kowsar Yousefi and Salman Farajnia
Academic literature and policy notes place great emphasis on the relationship between energy carriers and factors of production. We have evidence from a subsidized economy that provides nationwide energy subsidies; with inferences that partly contradict...
Pages: 171-198