Middle East Development Journal (MEDJ)

2009 - 2012

Edited by Lyn Squire

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Volume 04, issue 02, 2012

EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE pp. 1210002-1-1210002-1

Lyn Squire

INEQUALITY OF OPPORTUNITY IN CHILD HEALTH IN THE ARAB WORLD AND TURKEY pp. 1250006-1-1250006-37

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft, Nadia Belhaj Hassine and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

FOREIGN AID, EXPORTS AND DEVELOPMENT IN EUROMED pp. 1250007-1-1250007-24

Inmaculada Martínez-Zarzoso, Felicitas Nowak-Lehmann D. and Florian Johannsen

GENDER, EDUCATION, FAMILY STRUCTURE, AND THE ALLOCATION OF LABOR IN IRAN pp. 1250008-1-1250008-40

Hadi Salehi Esfahani and Parastoo Shajari

A MULTIDIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO POVERTY: THEORY AND APPLICATION TO THE CITY OF MARRAKECH pp. 1250009-1-1250009-27

Touhami Abdelkhalek and Fouzia Ejjanoui

DOES MENA'S GOVERNANCE LEAD TO SPATIAL AGGLOMERATION? pp. 1250010-1-1250010-23

Abdoul' Ganiou Mijiyawa, Alexander Kremer and Loïc Whitmore

AGGREGATE IMPORTS AND EXPENDITURE COMPONENTS IN TURKEY: A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT pp. 1250011-1-1250011-20

Öner Günçavdi and Burç Ülengi̇n

ANALYZING THE TRANSMISSION MECHANISMS OF MONETARY POLICY IN THE ABSENCE OF A NATIONAL CURRENCY: THE PALESTINIAN CASE pp. 1250012-1-1250012-30

Shaker Sarsour

Volume 04, issue 01, 2012

EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE pp. 1210001-1-1210001-1

Lyn Squire

THE IMPACT OF MIGRATION ON THE LABOR MARKETS IN THE ARAB MEDITERRANEAN COUNTRIES pp. 1230001-1-1230001-47

Francesca Marchetta

IS THE ANNOUNCED MONETARY UNION IN GCC COUNTRIES FEASIBLE? A MULTIVARIATE STRUCTURAL VAR APPROACH pp. 1250001-1-1250001-18

Magda ElSayed Kandil and Mohamed Trabelsi

SAVING AND GROWTH IN EGYPT pp. 1250002-1-1250002-23

Constantino Hevia and Norman V. Loayza

REVISITING THE FINANCE-GROWTH NEXUS: FURTHER EVIDENCE FROM TUNISIA pp. 1250003-1-1250003-15

Riadh Ben Jelili

BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT CONSTRAINTS ON GROWTH IN THE MENA REGION pp. 1250004-1-1250004-18

Rina Bhattacharya and Hirut Wolde

HAS EGYPT'S EXCHANGE RATE POLICY CHANGED AFTER THE FLOAT? pp. 1250005-1-1250005-27

Hoda Selim

BOOK REVIEW: "Inflation Targeting in MENA Countries — A Unfinished Journey", Edited by Mongi Boughazala and David Cobham pp. 1280001-1-1280001-7

Magda ElSayed Kandil

Volume 03, issue 02, 2011

EDITORIAL TEAM UPDATE pp. v-v

Lyn Squire

MOROCCANS' ASSIMILATION IN SPAIN: FAMILY-BASED VERSUS LABOR-BASED MIGRATION pp. 119-139

Núria Rodriguez-Planas and Raquel Vegas

DETERMINANTS OF INFLATION IN GCC pp. 141-158

Magda ElSayed Kandil and Hanan Morsy

FIRM-LEVEL DATA IN THE MENA REGION: RESEARCH QUESTIONS, DATA REQUIREMENTS AND POSSIBILITIES pp. 159-190

Izak Atiyas

WELFARE EFFECTS FROM REFORMING AGRICULTURAL POLICIES IN RICH COUNTRIES IN A SPATIALLY SMALL HETEROGENEOUS AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY pp. 191-213

Mohamed Abdelasset Chemingui

SPATIAL DEPENDENCE OF INCOME INEQUALITY AMONG TRADING PARTNERS pp. 215-232

Fadi A. Fawaz

ASSESSING SUBSIDIES AND INDIRECT TAXES IN IRAN: A SOCIAL WELFARE PERSPECTIVE pp. 233-246

Khosrow Piraee and Mohammad Reza Shahsavar

BOOK REVIEW: "Democracy in the Arab World — Explaining the Deficit" Edited by Ibrahim Elbadawi and Samir Makdisi pp. 247-251

Jean-Philippe Platteau

Volume 03, issue 01, 2011

THE RELEVANCE OF CHRISTOPHER PISSARIDES' CONTRIBUTION TO MENA LABOR MARKETS pp. 1-10

Ragui Assaad

THE UNENDING SEARCH FOR A NEW GLOBAL MONETARY AND FINANCIAL ARCHITECTURE pp. 11-28

Gerardo Della Paolera

TRADE OPENNESS AND CO2 EMISSIONS IN TUNISIA pp. 29-53

Houssem Eddine Chebbi, Marcelo Olarreaga and Habib Zitouna

FROM BILATERAL TRADE TO MULTILATERAL PRESSURE: A SCENARIO OF EUROPEAN UNION RELATIONS WITH SUDAN pp. 55-73

Khalid Hassan Ali Siddig

INTRA-FIRM DIFFUSION OF INNOVATION: EVIDENCE FROM TUNISIAN SMEs REGARDING INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES pp. 75-97

Adel Ben Youssef, Walid HADHRI and Hatem M'henni

DECOMPOSING MONETARY INEQUALITY IN THE ARAB REGION pp. 99-117

Sami Bibi and AbdelRahmen El Lahga

Volume 02, issue 02, 2010

SHOCKS, CRISES, AND THEIR DETERMINANTS pp. 159-176

Justin Yifu Lin

SUSTAINABILITY OF MENA PUBLIC DEBT AND THE MACROECONOMIC IMPLICATIONS OF THE RECENT GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS pp. 177-201

Simon Neaime

COULD GCC COUNTRIES ACHIEVE AN OPTIMAL CURRENCY AREA? pp. 203-227

Mohamed BENBOUZIANE and Abdelhak Benamar

PRIVATIZATION AND FINANCIAL MARKET DEVELOPMENT IN EMERGING COUNTRIES: A COMPARATIVE STUDY pp. 229-250

Ben Samy Ben Naceur, Narjess Boubakri and Samir Ghazouani

IS THERE A BANK LENDING CHANNEL OF MONETARY POLICY IN SELECTED MENA COUNTRIES? A COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS pp. 251-282

Adel Boughrara and Samir Ghazouani

GENDER POVERTY IN TUNISIA: IS THERE A FEMINIZATION ISSUE? pp. 283-307

Sami Bibi and Rim Chatti

BOOK REVIEW: "Oil, Dollars, Debt, and Crisis: The Global Curse of Black Gold" Mahmoud A. El-Gamal and Amy Myers Jaffe" pp. 309-313

Mansoor Dailami

Volume 02, issue 01, 2010

CENTRALIZATION, DECENTRALIZATION AND CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA pp. 1-14

Mehmet Serkan Tosun and Serdar Yilmaz

MULTIDIMENSIONAL FUZZY POVERTY AND PRO-POOR GROWTH MEASURES IN NONMONETARY DIMENSIONS IN EGYPT BETWEEN 1995 AND 2005 pp. 15-38

Valérie Berenger

TRANSITIONS TO EMPLOYMENT AND MARRIAGE AMONG YOUNG MEN IN EGYPT pp. 39-88

Ragui Assaad, Christine Binzel and May Gadallah

YOUTH TRANSITIONS TO EMPLOYMENT AND MARRIAGE IN IRAN: EVIDENCE FROM THE SCHOOL TO WORK TRANSITION SURVEY pp. 89-120

Daniel Egel and Djavad Salehi-Isfahani

ON THE POVERTY AND EQUITY IMPLICATIONS OF A RISE IN THE VALUE ADDED TAX: A MICROECONOMIC SIMULATION FOR LEBANON pp. 121-138

Nisreen Salti and Jad M. Chaaban

LONG AND SHORT–RUN LINKAGES BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH, ENERGY CONSUMPTION AND CO2 EMISSIONS IN TUNISIA pp. 139-158

Houssem Eddine Chebbi

Volume 01, issue 02, 2009

A COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RETURNS TO EDUCATION OF URBAN MEN IN EGYPT, IRAN, AND TURKEY pp. 145-187

Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Insan Tunali and Ragui Assaad

ENTRY, EXIT, RESOURCE REALLOCATION AND PRODUCTIVITY GROWTH IN THE TUNISIAN PRIVATE MANUFACTURING INDUSTRIES pp. 189-208

Riadh Ben Jelili and Mohamed Goaid

WIFE'S EARNINGS, CHILD NUTRITION, AND GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE IN EGYPT pp. 209-226

John Simister and Hassan Zaky

MARKET LIQUIDITY AND STRATEGIC ASSET ALLOCATION: APPLICATIONS TO GCC STOCK EXCHANGES pp. 227-254

Mazin A. M. Al Janabi

CORPORATE CAPITAL STRUCTURE CHOICES IN MENA: EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE FROM NON-LISTED FIRMS IN MOROCCO pp. 255-273

Lahcen Achy

INCOME INEQUALITY IN THE ARAB REGION: DATA AND MEASUREMENT, PATTERNS AND TRENDS pp. 275-314

Sami Bibi and Mustapha K. Nabli

Volume 01, issue 01, 2009

INDUSTRIAL POLICY: DON'T ASK WHY, ASK HOW pp. 1-29

Dani Rodrik

THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF TRADE POLICY IN TUNISIA pp. 31-58

Sonia Naccache

INFLATION AND GROWTH IN EGYPT: IS THERE A THRESHOLD EFFECT? pp. 59-78

Hala Abou-Ali and Hanaa Kheir-El-Din

IMPLICATIONS OF THE GROWTH OF CHINA AND INDIA FOR THE MIDDLE EAST pp. 79-103

Elena Ivanova Ianchovichina, Maros Ivanic and Will J Martin

INTRAHOUSEHOLD RESOURCE ALLOCATION IN EGYPT: WOMEN EMPOWERMENT AND INVESTMENT IN CHILDREN pp. 105-121

Soiliou Namoro and Rania Roushdy

TFP IN TUNISIAN MANUFACTURING SECTORS: CONVERGENCE OR CATCH-UP WITH OECD MEMBERS? pp. 123-144

Mohamed El Arbi Chaffai, Patrick Plane and Dorra Triki Guermazi