Browsing by Subject "Economic growth"
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Bank concentration, institutional quality, and economic growth: Empirical evidence from MENA countries
( Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. , 2016 , Article)Purpose: This study aims to examine the influence of institutional quality on the relationship between economic growth and banking sector concentration. Design/methodology/approach: The sample of our study covers 15 Middle ... -
The Credit–Growth Nexus: New Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries
( John Wiley & Sons Ltd. , 2014 , Article)The purpose of this paper is to assess the relationship between credit market development and economic growth for a heterogeneous panel of 20 developing and developed countries with varied growth experiences. The empirical ... -
Does sukuk market development spur economic growth?
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)We investigate the impact of sukuk market development on economic growth using a sample comprising all sukuk-issuing countries spanning the period 1995-2015. We use the system GMM estimator to tackle potential omitted ... -
Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book)Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders ... -
Electricity Consumption and Economic Growth in Jordan: A Multivariate Approach
( Qatar University , 2015 , Article)This paper aims to examine the impact of electricity consumption on economic growth in Jordan using annual data over the period 1985-2013. To achieve the goal, an Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) approach is implemented ... -
Financial development and economic diversification in Qatar: does Islamic finance matters
( Emerald Publishing , 2023 , Article)Purpose: The financial system plays an essential role in facilitating the intermediation process for economic growth. Policymakers stress on achieving a well-developed and regulated financial system to achieve economic ... -
The Impact of Migrant Remittances on Economic Growth in Arab Countries
( Scholink Inc , 2019 , Article)The potential role that workers’ remittances are likely to play in promoting economic growth, especially in Arab countries, is currently attracting considerable attention. These remittances have an impact on the remitting ... -
Impact of renewable and non-renewable energy consumption on economic growth: New evidence from the MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs)
( Elsevier , 2016 , Article)This study explores the economic growth – energy consumption nexus for two samples of MENA Net Oil Exporting Countries (NOECs) during the period 1980–2012. Using panel cointegration approach, we found strong evidence for ... -
Impact of renewable energy consumption and financial development on CO2 emissions and economic growth in the MENA region: A panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) analysis
( Elsevier Ltd , 2019 , Article)Unlike previous studies in the energy-environment literature, this study employed the panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) model that was developed by Love and Zicchino [1] to examine the impact of renewable energy and ... -
Investigating the impact of remittance outflows and oil price on economic growth in Gulf Cooperation Council countries
( Elsevier , 2023 , Article)Most existing studies have focused on examining the impact of labor remittance outflows on economic growth in the receiving countries, with limited attention given to the sending countries. This study utilizes the nonlinear ... -
Is Economic Growth Really Jobless? Empirical Evidence from North Africa
( Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. , 2019 , Article)North African countries recorded the highest youth unemployment rate in the World during the latest years. The main causes for that situation continue to be at the forefront of the debate among economists, sociologists and ... -
Modelling the treatment effect of renewable energy policies on economic growth: Evaluation from MENA countries
( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article)This paper investigates the effects of renewable energy (RE) policies on economic growth in MENA countries. Using the propensity score matching methodology, our empirical analysis, conducted on a sample of 24 economies (17 ... -
Qatar Economic Growth through Major Events in the Recent Years
( IEOM Society , 2021 , Conference Paper)Given Qatar's ambitious plan to sustain itself as one of the most emerging countries with a sound economy based on the Gas income, it had also developed parallel strategies by hosting significant events that have attracted ... -
Renewable and non-renewable energy use - economic growth nexus: The case of MENA Net Oil Importing Countries
( Elsevier , 2017 , Article Review)This study examines the energy use - economic growth nexus by disaggregating energy use into two types of energy, renewable and non-renewable energy use. Our sample consists of eleven MENA Net Oil Importing Countries (NOICs) ... -
Testing the Kuznets Curve hypothesis for Qatar: A comparison between carbon dioxide and ecological footprint
( Elsevier , 2017 , Article Review)This paper explores the validity of the Environmental Kuznets Curve (EKC) using two different environment indicators: the carbon dioxide emissions (CO2) and the ecological footprint (EF) in Qatar over the 1980-2011 period. ... -
The asymmetric effects of oil price on economic growth in Turkey and Saudi Arabia: New evidence from nonlinear ARDL approach
( Gokhale Institute of Politics and Economics , 2017 , Article)The immediate purpose of this paper is to examine and compare the potential asymmetric oil price effects on real GDP growth in two different countries with differing dependence on oil from the Middle East: Saudi Arabia and ... -
The environmental Kuznets curve relationship: a case study of the Gulf Cooperation Council region
( Springer Verlag , 2018 , Article)By using panel data over the 1980?2017 period and two alternative indicators of environmental pollution (carbon dioxide (CO2) and sulfur dioxide (SO2) emissions), this paper investigates the validity of the environmental ... -
The impact of energy consumption and economic development on Ecological Footprint and CO2 emissions: Evidence from a Markov Switching Equilibrium Correction Model
( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)Reducing the impact of air pollution and global environmental degradation on human health and quality of life for Qatari citizens represents the most important objective of the Qatar National vision 2030. With respect to ... -
The middle east and North Africa: Cursed by natural resources?
( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)The relationship between natural resource wealth and economic growth has been extensively studied. As opposed to basic intuition, the results of several empirical studies suggest that vast natural capital endowments don’t ... -
The switching impact of financial stability and economic growth in Qatar: Evidence from an oil-rich country
( Elsevier B.V. , 2019 , Article)This paper investigates the relationship between financial stability and economic growth in the Qatar economy over the period 1980:Q1–2013:Q4. The paper estimates the short- and long-run impact of real GDP growth on real ...