This paper examines the economic forces that explain regional growth in Algeria in the period 1998-2005. Since the beginning of structural reforms in the early 1980s, the Algerian economy has experienced a transition from a soviet-kind planned economy to a market economy. Furthermore, from 1990...

The main objectives of this study are: (1) to quantify the amounts of both trade creation and trade diversion in each of the countries involved, (2) to explain why the effects especially in Jordan have been much larger than one might have expected and seemingly larger than those in Egypt even...

This paper deals with the political economy of inequality in the distribution of consumption expenditure in the Arab region, using consumption expenditure as the best available proxy for the standard of living in developing countries (in contrast to income being the relevant proxy in the...

L’étude de la pauvreté au Maroc s’est toujours appuyée sur l’approche dite monétaire préconisée par la Banque mondiale. Pour approcher le phénomène de la pauvreté, la Direction de Statistique n’utilise que les dépenses de consommation. Cependant, cette approche a fait preuve de...

This paper studies local human capital externalities and returns to education in Turkey. Data comes from 2006 Household Labor Survey. Instrumental Variables-OLS estimation indicates internal (external) returns amounting to 4.9% (2.4%), while IV estimates using quantile regression range from 3%...

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...