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Is Economic Growth Really Jobless? Empirical Evidence from North Africa
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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 ...
Investigating the impact of remittance outflows and oil price on economic growth in Gulf Cooperation Council countries
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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 ...
The Credit–Growth Nexus: New Evidence from Developing and Developed Countries
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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?
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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 ...
Financial development and economic diversification in Qatar: does Islamic finance matters
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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 switching impact of financial stability and economic growth in Qatar: Evidence from an oil-rich country
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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 ...
Impact of renewable energy consumption and financial development on CO2 emissions and economic growth in the MENA region: A panel vector autoregressive (PVAR) analysis
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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 ...
The middle east and North Africa: Cursed by natural resources?
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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 ...
Renewable and non-renewable energy use - economic growth nexus: The case of MENA Net Oil Importing Countries
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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) ...
Modelling the treatment effect of renewable energy policies on economic growth: Evaluation from MENA countries
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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 ...