This study addresses the problem of agricultural water use efficiency via optimization of cropping patterns, irrigation strategies and external trade of agricultural products in Iran. Towards this end, comparative advantages of some principal crops are first determined using Policy Analysis...

In a basket managed foreign exchange rate arrangement, the volatility of the domestic money should exhibit a particular pattern: (1) it is reduced due to the diversification effect by linking the domestic money to a portfolio of currencies and frequent interventions of policymakers, (2) it...

The paper aims at characterizing the main determinants of the medium-term current account balance for oil-exporting countries using dynamic panel estimation techniques. Previous studies included a very limited number of oil-exporting countries in their samples, raising concerns about the...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate how the brand name’s market shares in Tunisia are affected by generic competition during the pre-reform period of the Tunisian health insurance system following the methodological approach developed by Aronsson et al. (2001). In this study we use...

Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models have gained popularity as an empirical tool for assessing the impact of trade liberalization on agricultural growth, poverty and income distribution. However, conventional models ignore the channels linking technical change in agriculture, trade...

In the past two decades, both developed and developing countries have deregulated their banking and financial systems with the aim of improving the efficiency, productivity and profitability of the sectors and increasing international competitiveness. This study attempts to examine the effect of...

To our knowledge, the present research is the first to explore the extremely biased division of labor within Egyptian households. Time activities in respect of paid and unpaid work are an important aspect of this study. The classical dichotomy of “work in the market” versus “leisure” may...

This paper aims to assess barriers to service provision in the financial, telecom, and transport sectors of selected MENA countries, including both trade and domestic restrictions. The analysis is focused on computation of aggregate and modal trade restrictiveness indexes (TRIs) by sector,...

In this paper, trends in total factor productivity (TFP) growth in 13 of Egypt's largest and oldest pharmaceutical generics firms are examined. The paper relies on data envelopment analysis (DEA) the non-parametric frontier methodology to obtain the Malmquist productivity index for the sample...

Although income distribution is one of the oldest parts of economic theory, we are still far from having any satisfactory theory explaining why income distribution in one country is more or less equal than in another, or what makes distribution move towards or away from equality over time....