Poverty and Social Welfare in the MENA Region

Julia Devlin

Chapter 8 in Economics of the Middle East:Development Challenges, 2016, pp 181-208 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Relative to other developing regions, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have low levels of poverty and a relatively equitable income distribution. Moreover, from a historical perspective, governments in the region have tended to spend more on the unemployed, the disabled, and the poor, relative to levels in industrialized countries at historically similar levels of per capita income…

Keywords: Economic Development; Middle East; North Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O10 O20 R11 R58 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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