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Open Skies Over the Middle East
Cristea, Anca D. - 2017
agreement to include Turkey would generate significantly larger gains because current policy vis-?-vis Turkey is much more …
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Turkey's Evolving Trade Integration into Pan-European Markets
Ng, Francis - 2016
This is an empirical paper seeking to identify the mode of Turkey's integration into global markets in general, and pan … observations. First, thanks to steady expansion of trade in goods and services since the mid-1980s, Turkey has become highly … integrated into the world economy. Second, Turkey's export performance in 1996-2004 in EU markets bears strong similarities to …
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Quasi-Fiscal Deficits in the Electricity Sector of the Middle East and North Africa : Sources and Size
Camos Daurella, Daniel - 2017
The annual electricity investments needed in the Middle East and North Africa region to keep up with demand have been estimated at about 3 percent of the region's projected gross domestic product. However, in most economies of the region, the ability to make those investments is limited by...
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Technology Adoption and the Middle-Income Trap : Lessons from the Middle East and East Asia
Arezki, Rabah - 2019
This paper documents the existence of a "middle-income trap" for the Middle East and North Africa region. It argues that the economic woes of the Middle East and North Africa offer new insights into the debate on the trap which has thus far focused on the East Asia and Pacific region. The...
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Developing Public-Private Partnership Initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa : From Public Debt to Maximizing Finance for Development
Arezki, Rabah - 2019
This paper argues for a novel approach to financing infrastructure needs in Arab countries. It first describes the context of rising public debt in the region, contrasting it with the vast infrastructure needs. It then discusses the challenges in meeting these needs with traditional financing....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869701
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A Comparative Analysis of Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region
Araar, Abdelkrim - 2017
The paper compares the distribution of energy and food subsidies across households and the impact of subsidy reforms on household welfare in the Middle East and North Africa region. The analysis uses a unified model and harmonized household data. The results show that the distribution of...
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Subsidy Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa Region : A Review
Verme, Paolo - 2017
The paper takes stock of eight country studies and a cross-country analysis to review the experience with subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa region between 2010 and 2014. This unprecedented period of subsidy reforms occurred during a period of extraordinary political changes,...
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The Reduction of Child Mortality in the Middle East and North Africa : A Success Story
Iqbal, Farrukh - 2017
Although child mortality rates have declined all across the developing world over the past 40 years, they have declined the most in the Middle East and North Africa region. This paper documents this remarkable experience and shows that it is broad based in the sense that all countries in the...
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Predicting Bank Insolvency in the Middle East and North Africa
Calice, Pietro - 2017
This paper uses a panel of annual observations for 198 banks in 19 Middle East and North Africa countries over 2001-12 to develop an early warning system for forecasting bank insolvency based on a multivariate logistic regression framework. The results show that the traditional CAMEL indicators...
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Economic Development and Female Labor Participation in the Middle East and North Africa : A Test of the U-Shape Hypothesis
Verme, Paolo - 2017
The Middle East and North Africa region is known for having low female labor market participation rates as compared with its level of economic development. A possible explanation is that these countries find themselves at the turning point of the U-shape hypothesis when countries transition from...
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