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Corruption and Economic Development
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Corruption is believed to be widespread and it adversely affects countries at different intervals, in different degrees. Corruption scandals show that bribes are commonplace and that even societies that are supposedly free ...
The Role of Institutions in Economic Development
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Despite the global liberalization of trade, financial and technological flows, there still are tremendous disparities in terms of income per capita and growth rates across countries (Hall and Jones, 1999). Among the plethora ...
FDI in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Foreign direct investment (FDI), which may be flow or stock, represents the investment of foreign assets into domestic structures, equipment, and organizations. The parent multinational corporations (MNCs) may use vertical, ...
Workers’ Remittances and Economic Growth in MENA Countries: The Role of Financial Development
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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.
Trade Diversification and Intra-Regional Trade in North Africa
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Examination of the growth phases in developed and in developing countries and their involvement in international trade shows the importance of trade policies in these countries. In recent decades, many developing countries ...
Economic development in the middle east and North Africa: Challenges and prospects
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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 role of ICT adoption in curbing corruption in developing countries
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Springer International Publishing
, 2017 , Book chapter)
Corruption is regarded as a major problem impeding development potentialities, and curbing it is a leading challenge for developing countries. This chapter assesses the possibilities of ICT adoption as a powerful tool for ...
The inflation-central bank independence nexus: Where do MENA countries stand?
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Palgrave Macmillan
, 2016 , Book chapter)
Inflation and its dynamics have been always capturing the attention of economic scholars and policymakers worldwide. Numerous theories in economic literature tried to define the concept of inflation by suggesting different ...
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 ...
Credit bureaus, corruption and banking stability
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Elsevier
, 2022 , Article)
This study assesses the impact that credit bureaus can have on the occurrence of banking crises, using data for 32 countries over the period 2004-2016 while considering the interference effect of corruption. Different ...