This chapter discusses whether the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries are prone to be cursed or blessed by their natural resources endowments. It thus reviews the literature on the resource curse theory. The existence of a resource curse is discussed and arguments against advocates...

This paper assesses the impact of remittances on economic growth for a selected sample of MENA countries over the 1987-2018 period. Using an ARDL model, we investigate the short- and long-run effects of remittances and the channels through which they may impact growth. Estimation outcomes show...