Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. The Role of Institutions in Economic Development

   • Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Sorin M. S. Krammer

   Pages 1-25

3. Sources of Economic Growth in MENA Countries: Technological Progress, Physical or Human Capital Accumulations?

   • Senay Acikgoz, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Merter Mert

   Pages 27-69

4. The Middle East and North Africa: Cursed by Natural Resources?

   • Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Lara Cockx, Nathalie Francken

   Pages 71-93

5. Workers Remittances and Economic Development: Which Role for Education?

   • Eugenie W. H. Maïga, Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali

   Pages 95-114

6. The Inflation-Central Bank Independence Nexus: Where Do MENA Countries Stand?

   • Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Etienne Farvaque, Muhammad Azmat Hayat

   Pages 115-131

7. Corruption and Economic Development

   • Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Shrabani Saha

   Pages 133-154

8. The Finance-Growth Nexus: Which Factors Can Interfere?

   • Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Nahla Samargandi, Kazi Sohag

   Pages 155-171

9. Trade Diversification and Intra-Regional Trade in North Africa

   • Audrey Verdier-Chouchane, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali, Charlotte Karagueuzian

   Pages 173-195

10. FDI in the Middle Eastern and North African Countries

    • John C. Anyanwu, Nadège Désirée Yaméogo, Mohamed Sami Ben Ali

    Pages 197-216

11. Back Matter

    Pages 217-227

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Using cases on individual countries, Economic Development in the Middle East and North Africa offers diverse theoretical and empirical evidence on a variety of issues facing policymakers, investors, and other stakeholders in the region.

• MENA
• Economic growth
• Corruption
• Natural Resources curse
• Development
• Remittances
• Central Bank independence
• Inflation
• FDI Trade
• Financial Development
• development
• Economic Development
• economic growth
• foreign direct investment
• growth

Audrey Verdier-Chouchane, African Development Bank Charlotte Karagueuzian, African Development Bank Etienne Farvaque, University of Lille, France Eugenie W. M. Maïga, Université de Koudougou, Burkina Faso John Chukwudi Anyanwuis, African Development Bank Kazi Sohag, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Lara Cockx, University of Leuven, Belgium Merter Mert, Gazi University, Turkey Mina Baliamoune-Lutz, University of North Florida, USA Muhammad Azmat Hayat, University of the Punjab, Pakistan Nadège Désirée Yaméogo, African Development Bank Nahla Samargandi, Brunel University, UK & King Abdulaziz University, Saudi Arabia Nathalie Francken, University of Antwerp, Belgium Senay Acikgoz, Gazi University, Turkey Shrabani Saha, University of Lincoln, UK Sorin M. S. Krammer, University of Groningen, Netherlands

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