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, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …
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Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … misalignment, including in recent years, the exchange rates in Morocco and Tunisia have broadly reflected the underlying … countries' real exchange rate misalignments during the past three decades. While Egypt experienced periods of substantial …
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namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
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This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries data during period 2005-2016. Using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation, the paper estimates a growth model...
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Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
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Commentary by Benjamin Netanyahu -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Why Judea is Jewish -- Chapter 2. Zionism -- Chapter 3. The Palestinian Fiction Factory and the Historical Record -- Chapter 4. Peace Process ≠ Peace -- Chapter 5. The True Nature of Anti-Zionism and the BDS Movement -- Chapter 6....
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-- 4. Commerce and Socialist Construction -- 5. Industry: From Trial-and-Error to Technology Reform -- 6. Agriculture as …
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The Late Middle Ages (c.1300–c.1500) saw the development of many of the key economic institutions of the modern unitary nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth century, taxes on trade became increasingly significant contributors to government finances,...
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Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: views on economic crises in the 21st century -- Chapter 2. A review of the history of the economy and its concepts: change is a constant -- Chapter 3. Keynes' and Minsky's macroeconomics -- Chapter 4. Outlook on the transformation of the market economy and its...
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Introduction -- Opening of the Vietnamese economy: Achievements and challenges -- Public administration reform: Efforts … integrated and comprehensive review of Vietnam’s recent development, discussing topics such as public administrative reform …
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