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Jobless growth: empirical evidences from the Middle East and North Africa region

Abou Hamia, Mohamad A. - In: Journal for Labour Market Research 49 (2016) 3, pp. 239-251

In this study, we use Okun's Law to examine whether growth has been jobless in seventeen MENA countries. The methods used are the ARDL approach for the individual country and the panel data analysis for the entire sample. The period considered in this study is from 1980 to 2013. To test for...

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Non-linear geographics and the economics of transition and democratization

Brezis, Elise S.; Verdier, Thierry - 2012

simple model of transition and democratization is presented wherein we show that the effectiveness of repression by the … incumbent elite is a negative function of the distance to the free world. In consequence, there are conflicting effects of … country to start a transition process towards democratization is not necessarily the one nearest to the free world. …

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Political Change in the Middle East: An Attempt to Analyze the "Arab Spring"

Beck, Martin; Hüser, Simone - 2012

This article deals with the Arab Spring as a process of deep political change in the Arab world, previously the only major world area where authoritarianism persisted unchallenged for decades. While in various countries of the Arab world mass protests in 2011 forced rulers to resign, other...

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Military Spending and Differential Accumulation: A New Approach to the Political Economy of Armament – The Case of Israel

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Review of Radical Political Economics 28 (1996) 1, pp. 51-95

This paper offers a new approach to the political economy of armament, focusing on the relationship between military spending and differential accumulation in mature capitalist economies. Applied to the “model” case of Israel, our analysis suggests that the militarization of Israel’s...

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Global Accumulation and the New Middle East Wars

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2002

The unravelling of the Middle-East peace process continues to baffle the pundits. The early optimism of the Oslo peace accord has now turned into despair. Prime minister Rabin was assassinated by a Jewish extremist. The Palestinians have embarked on a new Intifada. And Israel has re-occupied...

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The Global Political Economy of Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2002

Over the past century, Israel has been transformed from an agricultural colony, to a welfare-warfare state, to a globally integrated “market economy” characterised by great income disparities. What lies behind this transformation? Why the shift in emphasis from “war profits” to “peace...

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The Impermanent War Economy? Peace Dividends and Capital Accumulation in Israel

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: The Political Economy of Middle East Peace. The Impact …, (pp. 73-108). 1999

The purpose of this article is to offer an alternative analytical framework for understanding the long term transformation in Israel. First, we argue against the conventional separation between the “political system” and the “economic system.” This separationist approach has been popular...

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The Weapondollar-Petrodollar Coalition

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: The Global Political Economy of Israel, (pp. 198-273). 2002

A theoretical and historical account of the global political economy of oil, armament and capital accumulation in the Middel East.

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Hobbes to Rousseau : Inequality, Institutions, and Development

Cervellati, Matteo; Fortunato, Piergiuseppe; Sunde, Uwe - 2005

. We study the conditions under which a state of law can be implemented under oligarchy, and when democratization is … necessary. Inequality in endowments and incomes prolongs the absence of good institutions and delays democratization. Conversely …

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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa

Benner, Maximilian - 2012

Cluster policy has become a method of choice for policymakers in many countries. Promoting strong localized industries is an appealing perspective for practitioners, as it can be seen as a way to anchor economic activity in regions in an era of globalization. If cluster policy is successful, it...

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