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A Cross-Country Non-Parametric Analysis of Bahrain's Banking Sector

Manole, Vlad - 2005

Bahrain''s financial sector development strategy succeeded in building a leading regional banking center, which has … that the banking sector in Bahrain continues to occupy a front-runner position among those in a sample of member countries … of the Gulf Cooperation Council, they also reveal that: (i) as expected, banks in Bahrain still lag behind their …

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Estimating potential growth in the Middle East and Central Asia

Mitra, Pritha; Hosny, Amr; Abajyan, Gohar; Fischer, Mark - 2015

The Middle East and Central Asia's economic growth potential is slowing faster than in other emerging and developing regions, dampening hopes for reducing persistent unemployment and improving the region's generally low living standards. Why? And is it possible to alter this course? This paper...

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Remittances channel and fiscal impact in the Middle East, North Africa, and Central Asia

Abdih, Yasser; Barajas, Adolfo; Chami, Ralph; Ebeke, … - 2012

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Digitalization and resilience : firm-level evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic

Abidi, Nordine; El Herradi, Mehdi; Sakha, Sahra - 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented shock to firms with adverse consequences for existing productive capacities. At the same time, digitalization has increasingly been touted as a key pathway for mitigating economic losses from the pandemic, and we expect firms facing digital...

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Middle East and Central Asia : a survey of gender budgeting efforts

Kolovich, Lisa; Shibuya, Sakina - 2016

Gender budgeting uses fiscal policies to promote gender equality and women's advancement, but is struggling to take hold in the Middle East and Central Asia. We provide an overview of two gender budgeting efforts in the region-Morocco and Afghanistan. Achievements in these two countries include...

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Are Middle Eastern current account imbalances excessive?

Beidas-Strom, Samya; Cashin, Paul A. - 2011

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Operationalizing inclusive growth : per-percentile diagnostics to inform redistribution policies

Kireev, Aleksej P.; Leonidov, Andrei - 2020

Inclusive growth, narrowly defined in this paper as growth that helps reduce inequality, is achieved if consumption of the poor increases faster than consumption of the rich. The paper presents a simple accounting framework for a per-percentile consumption diagnostics that could inform...

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SME financial inclusion for sustained growth in the Middle East and Central Asia

Ghassibe, Mishel; Appendino, Maximiliano; Elsadek … - 2019

This paper offers empirical evidence that greater financial inclusion of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) can promote higher economic growth and employment, especially in the Middle East and Central Asia regions. First, we show that countries with higher SME financial inclusion exhibit more...

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Middle East transitions : a long, hard road

Yusuf, Shahid - 2014

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Beauty Queens and Wallflowers : Currency Unions in the Middle East and Central Asia

Elborgh-Woytek, Katrin - 2006

Against the background of the theory of optimum currency areas, the paper analyzes possible sequences for establishing a currency union (CU) in the Middle East and Central Asia region. Between the corner solutions of independent currencies for all countries in the region and a CU comprising all...

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