Syria faces two interrelated medium-term challenges posed by the prospective decline in its oil reserves. The recently approved five-year plan (FYP) laid down a comprehensive strategy to address these challenges. Syria’s public finances are headed for challenging times in the coming 10–15...

This research aimed at studying the impact of firm characteristics on the level of social responsibility disclosure by firms subject to the rules of The Syrian Commission on Financial Markets and Securities. The research was applied on 38 companies for which data was available from 2007-2013. To...

This paper argues that trade and capital account reforms within autocracies underlie the primacy of foreign currency procurement. A longitudinal comparison of four countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle East and North Africa region shows a historical sequencing of reforms....