This paper evaluates the time-varying integration of the Singapore stock market in the ASEAN-5 region based on

This paper aims to examine the perception of skills of local workers in Algeria. Our exploratory research is based on a series of interviews with a panel in connection with the construction of the East-West highway. The results show that Algeria lacks of critical skills and keeps an outdated...

During the past decade, Qatar has changed status. A micro invisible state on a world map with a little presence in the regional balance in the Middle East, Qatar has become a cultural power (al-Jazeeras success), diplomatic (the arbiter of political transitions) and financial (QIA). It is...

In recent years, a number of Islamic banks have been created to cater to the growing demand, driven by globalization and the vast wealth of some Muslim states in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and Islamic finance has moved from a niche position to become a mainstream component of the global...

Muslim countries of the southern Mediterranean are the unthought of the West. We stayed in old patterns based on the idea of a clash of civilizations, an economic backwardness of Southern countries and the indissoluble nature of Islam in modernity. The recent revolutions in Arabic countries show...

Jacques Léon Rueff (1896-1978) is one of the great French economists of the twentieth century, yet today it is largely unknown. The recurrence of financial crises around the world is an opportunity to rediscover the originality of thought of that great liberal writer who was an advisor to...

This paper analyzes the income of french top managers taking as a sample firms that made the CAC 40 in 2009. The pay gap between CEOs and unskilled workers have never been higher. In our view, explanations of this trend are not solely related to economic causes (transformation of the labor...