Middle East and North Africa countries’ agricultural export potentials under trade reforms

Structural Reforms in the Middle East and North Africa

P ar t 1 S tr uc tu ra l R ef or m s in th e M id dl e Ea st a nd N or th A fr ic a After more than twenty years of rapid economic growth, falling oil prices in the mid-1980s and an abrupt decline in investment and growth pushed Arab governments to rethink their basic frameworks for economic management (Page 1998; World Bank 1995).2 The post-independence Arab socialist period left virtually all...

Economic Consequences of COVID-19 in the Middle East and North Africa Region Countries

From the first reported case of Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on December 30, 2019 in Wuhan, China, the number of confirmed cases of the disease has been increased continuously and exponentially up to now. The event has emerged as a clear threat to global health such that the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared the outbreak of the disease a pandemic on March 11, 2020. The ...

investigating export potential vision and competitiveness of iran's agricultural product in middle east and north africa

present study, compares iran's agricultural products competitiveness power with mena's countries during 1995-2011. for accomplishing mentioned goal, first, agricultural commodities export and import indices calculated for each one of twenty countries of mentioned region and then revealed comparative advantages index of agricultural commodities trade calculated. results showed that iran had comp...

Crowding out (in) effect of FDI on domestic investment in the Middle East and North Africa countries

Theoretically and empirically, FDI may have positive (complementary) or negative (substitution) effect on the host country’s domestic investment. This study aims to examine the existence of crowding out (in) effect of FDI for MENA countries with high- and low- level income. Using the GMM, several regressions were estimated over the periods of 1981-2017 and 2001-2017. The immediate positive effe...

Middle East North Africa Sustainable Electricity Trajectories