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The Impact of Oil Shocks on Qatar’s GDP
Al-mulali, Usama; Sab, Che; Normee, Che - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This study examines the impact of oil shocks on Qatar’s gross domestic product using time series data from the period … employed in this study. From the results we concluded that oil price has a positive effect on Qatar’s gross domestic product …, but at the expense of higher inflation. Qatar seems to have suffered from financial surpluses and rapid economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008776850
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The Middle Eastern Wealth Management Industry: Boon or Bust?
Michael, Bryane; Apostoloski, Nenad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
in foreign competition, changing banking and securities laws, and growing local companies whose share are worth buying … making business easier, reforming banking and securities law, and forcing local banks to become more efficient. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259143
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Unlocking North Africa’s Potential through Regional Integration : Challenges and Opportunities
Santi, Emanuele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Efforts to promote regional integration in North Africa to date have often been constrained by political differences as well as diversity in economic performance, pace of economic reforms and openness, and disparities in legal and regulatory frameworks. Overlapping preferential trade agreements...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259788
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Iran’s poultry meat export status in the Middle East region
Mirzaei, Farhad; Yazdani, Saeed; Gharahdagh, Ali Akbar; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
Agriculture is literally a matter of life and death in the developing world. Ninety-six per cent of the world’s farmers – approximately 1.3 billion people – live in developing countries. In the rural areas of the developing world, close to 900 million people live on less than $1 a day.The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835575
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Pensions in the Middle East and North Africa: time for change
Robalino, David; Whitehouse, Edward; Mataoanu, Anca; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
While other regions — Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America in particular — have been active in pension reform, the Middle East and North Africa have lagged behind. In part this is because of the belief that favourable mean financial problems are still far in the future and pension...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836602
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The scientist and the church
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
The April 21, 2005 issue of the LONDON REVIEW OF BOOKS carried a lead article titled ‘Blood for Oil?’ The paper is attributed to a group of writers and activists – Iain Boal, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews and Michael Watts – who identify themselves by the collective name ‘Retort.’ In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836969
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The Defense-growth nexus: An application for the Israeli-Arab conflict
Abu-Qarn, Aamer - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper revisits the defence-growth nexus for the rivals of the Israeli-Arab conflict over the last four decades. To this end, we utilize the Toda and Yamamoto (1995) causality test and the generalized variance decomposition. Contrary to the conventional wisdom and many earlier studies, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008536076
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New imperialism or new capitalism?
Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Over the past century, the institution of capital and the process of its accumulation have been fundamentally transformed. By contrast, the theories that explain this institution and process have remained largely unchanged. The purpose of this paper is to address this mismatch. Using a broad...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621372
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Knowledge-based Economic Development as a Unifying Vision in a Post-awakening Arab World
Schwalje, Wes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This article traces the evolution of knowledge-based economic development in the Arab World. In pursuing this objective, many countries in the region have made large state-driven human capital investments with the goals of job creation, economic integration, economic diversification,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009001187
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New Product Development in Tourism:A Middle East Experience
Pillai, Rajasekharan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper is a modified version of an academic study conducted as part of a post graduate dissertation in Management during 2010. The researchers attempted to explore the potential of the tourism sector in Bahrain and to evaluate the feasibility of developing a new tourism product in the...
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