The paper focuses on the manufacturing sector of 10 Mediterranean Partners, in particular on the industrial structures and their relationship with the market. The Euro-Mediterranean Partnership, and in particular the project of the free trade area, is placing the North-South relationship in a...

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...

There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study on duration aspect of unemployment in Turkey. We use the results of the Household Labor Force Surveys of 2000 and 2001 to construct a cross-section of durations of unemployment spells. We analyze the...

The 'brain drain' phenomenon has been widely investigated since the mid-1960s both in academic circles and by policymakers. From the developing country perspective, the migration of skilled individuals is viewed as a threat to economic development, and as a costly subsidy from the poor nations...

Results from this cross-country study indicate that there are no simple patterns in how investment in schooling in the MENA countries differs from international experience. The regression results for 1965 and for 1994 show a wide diversity in enrollments at the primary and secondary school...

Dans ce papier, nous tenterons d’examiner, sous un angle empirique, le degré d’intégration des marchés de capitaux arabes en particulier ceux des pays du Moyen Orient et d’Afrique du Nord (MENA). Nous emprunterons une démarche fondée sur la cointégration bi-et multivariée, les...

The role of education, technological diffusion and trade is investigated for 11 MENA countries for 1980-1992, using panel data techniques. Technological diffusion is measured by R&D activities in each country?s major trading partners and that country's import propensity from each partner....

This paper examined the empirical relationship between financial intermediation and economic growth using cross-country and panel data regressions for 69 developing countries for the period 1960-1990. The main results are: (i) Financial development is a significant determinant of economic growth...

The study proposes a long-term development strategy for Iran as an oil exporting country to meet two long-term development goals: employment creation and diversification. In order to provide jobs for the rapidly growing active population-let alone face the challenge of unproductive employment...

This paper develops a model of government policy toward industrial control and regulation that sheds light on the determinants of differential country experiences in terms of organizational arrangement and enterprise performance. In contrast to the model developed by Shleifer and Vishny (1994...