Browsing Finance & Economics by Subject "Financial Development"

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    • Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami ( 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 ...

    • The finance-growth nexus: Which factors can interfere? 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami; Samargandi, Nahla; Sohag, Kazi ( Palgrave Macmillan , 2016 , Book chapter)
      The financial sector's role in economic growth is heavily contested by economists. Some argue that economic growth is not caused by finance, but that it responds to changing demands, while others argue the positive effect ...

    • The middle east and North Africa: Cursed by natural resources? 

      Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami; Cockx, Lara; Francken, Nathalie ( 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 ...

    • Workers’ Remittances and Economic Growth in MENA Countries: The Role of Financial Development 

      Maïga, Eugenie W. H.; Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina; Ben Ali, Mohamed Sami ( Springer , 2020 , Book chapter)
      In this article, we examine the role of financial development as a channel through which migrants’ remittances could affect economic growth in selected countries of the MENA region.