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Renewable energy and economic growth in the MENA region: empirical evidence and policy implications 中东和北非地区可再生能源与经济增长：经验证据和政策启示
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2018-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2018.1520000
P. Dees, Georgeta Vidican Auktor
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引用次数: 24
Natural resources, incentives and human capital: reinterpreting the curse* 自然资源、激励与人力资本:重新解读诅咒*
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2018.1443992
Salim M. Araji, H. Mohtadi
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引用次数: 13
The economic response of rural areas to local supply shock: evidence from the Occupied West Bank* 农村地区对当地供应冲击的经济反应:来自被占领西岸的证据*
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2018.1446235
Belal N. Fallah
{"title":"The economic response of rural areas to local supply shock: evidence from the Occupied West Bank*","authors":"Belal N. Fallah","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2018.1446235","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2018.1446235","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As the Second Intifada broke out at the end of 2000, Israel severely restricted entry for Palestinians to its labor market, forcing a great section of commuters to return to their local labor markets. This paper examines the economic effect of the return commuting on non-commuters in rural areas of the Occupied West Bank. Utilizing place-of-work, repeated cross-section data, the results show that returned commuting has negative repercussions. Specifically, wages decrease for workers with the same skill type (low skilled). The results also provide evidence that favors the crowd-out effect hypothesis. The estimated probability of unemployment increases for non-commuters with disproportionate effect for job seekers relative to those reportedly employed. Consistent with this result, increases in return commuting prolong unemployment duration for the low skilled. The outcome of this paper helps understand how rural labor markets may respond to labor supply shocks.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2018.1446235","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46596141","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 4
Debunking myth: economic values in the Arab World through the prism of opinion polls 揭穿神话:透过民意调查的棱镜看阿拉伯世界的经济价值
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2018.1443993
I. Diwan, Z. Tzannatos, Tarik Akin
{"title":"Debunking myth: economic values in the Arab World through the prism of opinion polls","authors":"I. Diwan, Z. Tzannatos, Tarik Akin","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2018.1443993","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2018.1443993","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Using World Value Survey opinion poll data, we empirically characterize the economic values and norms held by individuals in the Arab world, in comparison to values held in the rest of the world. We find that, contrary to some common beliefs, there are many values that predispose citizens of Arab countries to be part of a market economy, including a high level of work ethics, comfort with competition and the work of markets, and a high level of economic motivation. Moreover, it is unlikely that the fear of income redistribution has taxed investment, as opinions among Arab citizens are similar to average global opinions. However, we also find a few values that are inimical to the workings of a market-led economy, and in particular, a low preference for thrift, low levels of acceptance of women's work outside home, and low trust in state institutions combined with a perception of high levels of corruption both in government and in business. We compare these preferences between citizens of Arab countries vs. citizens of Muslim-majority countries around the world, and of oil-exporting countries, and find that these groups exhibit related but distinct preference maps. We also ask whether these values are distributed differently among different types of individuals (with differing education, age, gender, and levels of religiosity) in the Arab world and in other countries around the world.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2018.1443993","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42753062","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 6
Ever married women’s participation in labor market in Egypt: constraints and opportunities 已婚妇女在埃及劳动力市场的参与:限制和机会
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2018.1443605
Hanan Nazier, Racha Ramadan
{"title":"Ever married women’s participation in labor market in Egypt: constraints and opportunities","authors":"Hanan Nazier, Racha Ramadan","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2018.1443605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2018.1443605","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research studies the individual, households and community determinants affecting Egyptian woman’s decision to enter the labor force and affecting her employment status. Using the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey ELMPS, 2012, five probit models were estimated for ever-married women. The first model is about Egyptian women’s decision to participate in the labor force. Once she is in the labor force, the second model studies the determinants of being employed. Among employed women, three employment types are tackled in the remaining three models; being employed in the public sector (model 3), being a private wage worker (model 4) and being self-employed (model 5). As found in the literature, the results show that there is a strong dependence between woman’s education and employment type. Moreover, the results confirm the role played by the mother’s employment status in her daughter’s labor force participation. Finally, the community characteristics play a significant role in affecting women’s decision in entering the labor force. Once society accepts the integration of women in the labor market and not only being responsible for care and house work, individual characteristics and households characteristics influenced her decision of which employment type to choose.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2018.1443605","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43593933","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 9
Popular grievances in the Arab region: evaluating explanations for discontent in the lead-up to the uprisings 阿拉伯地区民众的不满情绪：评估起义前不满情绪的解释
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2018.1443606
Melani Cammett, Nisreen Salti
{"title":"Popular grievances in the Arab region: evaluating explanations for discontent in the lead-up to the uprisings","authors":"Melani Cammett, Nisreen Salti","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2018.1443606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2018.1443606","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the wake of the Arab uprisings, analysts have advanced multiple hypotheses about the grievances at the root of mass mobilization, yet little empirical research examines their validity, particularly at the micro-level. We use survey data from 2009 to 2010 from Arab countries that experienced mass protests to assess the validity of dominant approaches. Cross-national variation in patterns of grievances lends support to claims that diffusion processes rather than a common set of concerns fuelled the uprisings.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2018.1443606","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49321733","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 13
Regional efficiency of healthcare services in Saudi Arabia 沙特阿拉伯医疗服务的区域效率
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2018-01-02 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2018.1443607
Wael Mousa, Jehad S. Aldehayyat
{"title":"Regional efficiency of healthcare services in Saudi Arabia","authors":"Wael Mousa, Jehad S. Aldehayyat","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2018.1443607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2018.1443607","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study aims to estimate the regional efficiency of healthcare services in Saudi Arabia. A non-parametric methodology, data envelopment analysis (DEA), is applied to evaluate the relative efficiency of 13 Saudi regions in 2014 by using multiple regional inputs and outputs to characterize healthcare provision. This study provides a unique measurement of Saudi regional efficiency since most of the previous studies that applied DEA in Saudi Arabia focused on public hospitals or primary medical services, which work under the supervision of the Ministry of Health. This is one of the first studies in developing and Arab countries in general, and in Saudi Arabia in particular, which focuses on an interregional level, as it divides each region into public and private sectors. The empirical results show that efficiency differs across the selected regions and between the private and public sectors. In general, less developed regions show a relatively high level of efficiency whereas others, such as Makkah and the Eastern regions, seem to be the least efficient regions in both sectors. The study revealed that the Riyadh region, which employs a disproportionately large amount of health resources in comparison with other regions, is efficient in both sectors. The empirical study also finds evidence of the potential to improve health outcomes by ensuring a sufficient level of healthcare resources in the inefficient regions that are lagging behind significantly. Finally, in some regions the public sector was efficient whereas the private sector was not, and vice versa.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2018-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2018.1443607","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42061661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 24
Algeria and the natural resource curse: oil abundance and economic growth 阿尔及利亚和自然资源诅咒:石油丰富和经济增长
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2017.1366772
Sidi Mohamed Chekouri, Abderrahim Chibi, Mohamed Benbouziane
{"title":"Algeria and the natural resource curse: oil abundance and economic growth","authors":"Sidi Mohamed Chekouri, Abderrahim Chibi, Mohamed Benbouziane","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2017.1366772","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2017.1366772","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we examine the interaction between oil exports’ revenues and long-run economic growth in Algeria over the period 1979–2013. Advanced econometric procedures including the cointegration VARX (VAR with exogenous variables) model, over-identifying restrictions, bootstrapping, persistent profiles and Generalized Impulse Response Function are utilized in the empirical analysis. The results show a strong and positive association between oil revenue and long-run economic growth, but negative linkages between the volatility of oil revenues and growth in Algeria. Our impulse response analysis also provides evidence that a positive shock in oil revenues increases the level of real output, and appreciates the real exchange rate.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2017.1366772","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41400440","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 18
The nexus between internal and external macroeconomic imbalances: evidence from Egypt 内部和外部宏观经济失衡之间的联系:来自埃及的证据
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2017.1368217
O. Helmy, Chahir Zaki
{"title":"The nexus between internal and external macroeconomic imbalances: evidence from Egypt","authors":"O. Helmy, Chahir Zaki","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2017.1368217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2017.1368217","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines the nexus between internal and external imbalances of the Egyptian economy. In fact, both the twin-deficit hypothesis (TDH) and the Feldstein–Horioka (FH) paradox are examined. Using quarterly data (between 2002 and 2014) in order to capture the short-term dynamics that might affect the Egyptian economy, a Granger causality test and an error-correction model are run in order to determine both the short-term adjustment and the long-run relationship between internal and external imbalances. Our main findings show that the TDH is rejected and a reversed causality running from the current account to the budget deficit exits. Moreover, the FH puzzle is partially rejected since Egypt, while not being perfectly integrated in the world capital market, has a high degree of capital mobility.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2017.1368217","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48685119","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 5
The determinants of voting for Islamists in Egypt’s first post-revolution elections 2011–2012 2011-2012年埃及第一次革命后选举中伊斯兰主义者投票的决定因素
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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2017-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2017.1369787
M. Attallah
{"title":"The determinants of voting for Islamists in Egypt’s first post-revolution elections 2011–2012","authors":"M. Attallah","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2017.1369787","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2017.1369787","url":null,"abstract":"This paper studies empirically the voting outcomes for the first post-revolution presidential elections in Egypt. In the light of strong success of the Islamist candidate, Mohamed Morsi, I identify three dimensions which can affect voting outcomes: human capital stock, wealth and employment structure. I find that less educated, poorer and more unequal districts support more Islamists. I also find an effect of the employment structure of a district on voting. I test the results by comparing the determinants of voting outcomes of the presidential elections to those of the 2011 and 2012 constitutional referendums.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2017-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2017.1369787","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44379208","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 1
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