Fertility in the MENA countries shows that transition is an undeniable trend in this region, where the paradigm of demographic transition seemed to lose all its credibility. Analysis of the proximate determinants of fertility shows that contraception is becoming the leading inhibiting factor,...

This paper discusses the role of labor market flexibility in economic adjustment during the 1970s and the 1980s decades in developing countries in Asia, Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. In the first part of the paper it is argued that the success of the Asian countries to adjust to...

This paper examined theoretically and empirically privatization episodes in a sample of Sub-Sahara African countries that were under military regimes as of 1970. The theoretical analysis employed a principal-agent model to investigate the mutually beneficial profit-sharing collaborations between...