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2002: The Reforms Needed to Attract More FDI in Egypt: Lessons from the CEEC Experience

Bassem Kamar and Damyana Bakardzhieva

2002: Competition Law and Competition Policy: What Does Egypt Really Need?

Ahmed Ghoneim

2002: The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

A-M. Abdel-Rahman

2002: The Impact of ICT on Economic Development in The Arab World: A Comparative Study of Egypt and The Gulf Countries

Samia Mohamed Nour

2002: Geography, International Trade and Technological Diffusion

Sami Rezgui

2002: Efficiency Measure from Dynamic Stochastic Production Frontier: Application to Tunisian Textile, Clothing and Leather Industries

Rim Mouelhi and Mohamed Goaied

2002: Economic Aspects of Wastewater Reuse: The Egyptian Case

Raouf Khouzam

2002: Trade Policies, Wage Level and Profitability in the Manufacturing Sector in Jordan (1976-1998)

Ibrahim Saif

2002: Getting Ready For Economic Globalization: The Strategic Response of The Sudanese Import-Substitution Manufacturing Enterprises to Emerging Competition

El-Khider Musa

2002: Rice Market Liberalization in Iran: Welfare and Poverty

Mohammad Bakhshoodeh and G. R. Soltani

2002: Privatization, Investment and Efficiency in the Telecommunications Industry: Theory and Empirical Evidence from MENA Countries

Anastassios Gentzoglanis

2002: Measuring Tax Effort in Arab Countries

M. Eltony

2002: Finance and Growth: Empirical Evidence from Developing Countries 1960-1990

Mohamed Trabelsi

2002: Initial and Aftermarket Performance of Egyptian Share Issue Privatization

Mohammed Omran

2002: Household Demand in Turkey: An Application of Almost Ideal Demand System with Spatial Cost Index

Savas Alpay and Ali Koc

2002: TFP and Economic Potential of The Tunisian Economy

Sofiane Ghali and Pierre Mohnen

2002: The Long-Run Validity of Monetary Exchange Rate Model for A High Inflation Country and Misalignment: The Case of Turkey

İrfan Civcir

2002: Debunking Myth: Economic Values in the Arab World Through the Prism of Opinion Polls

Ishac Diwan and Zafiris Tzannatos

2002: The Impact of Automation on Liquidity, Volatility, Stock Returns and Efficiency: Evidence from the Tunisian Stock Market

Olfa Sioud and Dorra Hmaied

2002: Dvidend Signaling Hypothesis and Short-Term Asset Concentration of Islamic Interest-free Banking

Joseph Farhat, M. Kabir Hassan and Bashir Al-Zu'bi

2002: Before The Fall Was The Turkish Lira Overvalued?

İrfan Civcir

2002: Does the Exchange Rate Regime Affect Expectation Formation in the Foreign Exchange Market? The Case of a Currency that is Pegged to a Basket

Imad Moosa

2002: Liberalization, Ownership and Productivity in Turkish Banking

İhsan Işık, Ugur Meleke and Ebru Isik

2002: Financial Distress and Bank Performance: Turkish Experience

İhsan Işık, M. Kabir Hassan and Ebru Meleke-Isik

2002: The Relationship of Earnings and Book Values to Equity Values: Evidence from Turkey

İhsan Işık, Asokan Anandarajan and Ebru Isik

2002: Grievances or Skills? The Effect of Education on Youth Attitudes and Political Participation in Egypt and Tunisia

Ragui Assaad, Miquel Pellicer, Caroline Krafft and Colette Salemi

2002: Impact of Israeli Measures on Palestinian Child Labor and Schooling

Saleh Al Kafri

2002: Interest Free and Interest-Bearing Money Demand: Policy Invariance and Stability

Amir Kia

2002: Women's Informal Employment in Palestine: Securing A Livelihood Against All Odds

Simel Esim and Eileen Kuttab

2002: An Empirical Investigation of Economic Cooperation among the OIC Member Countries

M. Kabir Hassan

2002: Egypt's Growth Performance Under Economic Liberalism: A Reassessment with New GDP Estimates, 1885-1945

Tarik Yousef

2002: Succession Effects in Radically Different Environments: A Study in Turkish Banking before and after Liberalization

Behlul Usdiken and Suleyman Ozmucur

2002: Macroeconomic Instability, Capital Accumulation and Growth: The Case of Turkey 1963-1999

Mustafa Ismihan, Kivilcim Metin-Ozcan and Aysıt Tansel

2002: The Changing Financial Landscape: Opportunities and Challenges for The Middle East and North Africa

Wafik Grais and Zeynep Kantur

2002: Trade and Migration, Are they Complements or Substitutes: A Review of Four MENA Countries

Heba Nassar and Ahmed Ghoneim

2002: Measuring Exchange Rate Misalignment

Umit Ozale and Erinc Yeldan

2002: What Determines the Extent of Public Ownership

Hadi Esfahani and Ali Ardakani

2002: Diversity and Historical Processes in Human Development: The Decline of Rationality

Ismail Sirageldin

2002: Hiding Public Debt

HoeJeong Kim and Hadi Esfahani

2002: Turkey: Toward EU Accession

Sübidey Togan

2002: Measurement and Nature of Absolute Poverty in Least Developed Countries

Massoud Karshenas

2002: Revisiting the Impact of Trade Openness on Informal and Irregular Employment in Egypt

Melika Ben Salem and Chahir Zaki

2001: Targeting the Poor Beyond Gaza or the West Bank: The Geography of Poverty in the Palestinian Territories

Claus Astrup and Sebastien Dessus

2001: The Effect of Child Work on School Enrollment in Egypt

Ragui Assaad, Deborah Levison and Nadia Zibani

2001: Investment, Markup and Capacity Utilization in Tunisia

Riadh Ben Jelili

2001: Wage Earners, Self Employed and Gender in the Informal Sector in Turkey

Aysıt Tansel

2001: Tranfers Contribution to the Consolidation of Social and Family Security and to the Protection against Poverty: Case of Morocco

Abelkader Teto

2001: Poverty, Human Capital and Gender: A Comparative Study OF Yemen and Egypt

Safaa El-Kogali and El Daw Suliman

2001: A Political Economy Model of Resource Pricing with Evidence from the Fuel Market

Hadi Esfahani

2001: Exchange Rate and Domestic Prices in The GCC Countries

Mohamed Ghars El-Din and Yousuf Mohammad

2001: Performance and Credit Rating in Banking: A Comparative Study for Egypt and Lebanon

Sam Hakim and Simon Neaime

2001: The Determinants of Urban and Rural Poverty in Tunisia

Samir Ghazouani and Mohamed Goaied

2001: Comparing Effects of General Subsidies and Targeted Transfers on Poverty: Robustness Analysis Using Data Set from Tunisia

Sami Bibi

2001: A Comparative Study of GCC Banks Technical Efficiency

Imed Limam

2001: Processus De Barcelone Et Partenariat Euro- Mediterraneen: Le Cas Du Maroc Avec L?Union Europeenne

Mohamed Boussetta

2001: Labor Market Competitiveness and Flexibility in Egypt

Naglaa El-Ehwany and Manal Metwally

2001: The Cost of Transacting in the Jordanian Capital Market

Ghassan Omet

2001: Diversification, Employment and Development: Towards A Long-Term Strategy for an Oil-Exporting Country; The Case of Iran

Mehdi Shafaeddin

2001: Poverty and Vulnerability on the Labor Market: Some Dimensions of the Fragility of the Position of the Poor

Khalid Soudi

2001: Internal and External Economies in Egyptian Manufacturing, 1970-1997

Hélène Cottenet

2001: The Lebanese Telecommunication Sector and The Impact of Privatization on The Labor Market

Joey Ghaleb

2001: Public Employment as A Social Protection Mechanism

Aysıt Tansel

2001: Financial Structure, Creditworthiness and Stock Market Development: A Cross-Country Analysis

M. Kabir Hassan

2001: Further Evidence on the Link Between Finance and Cyclical Fluctuations

Ali Darrat and Mahmoud Haj

2001: Fiscal Deficits, Public Absorption and External Imbalances: An Empirical Examination of the Moroccan Case

Brahim Mansouri

2001: Fiscal Response to Fluctuating Oil Revenues in Oil Exporting Countries of the Middle East

Nader Habibi

2001: An Empirical Evaluation of the Implementation of the Bonus-Malus System in the Tunisian Automobile Insurance Ratemaking

Olfa Ghali

2001: Exporting Labor or Goods? Long-Term Implications for The Palestinian Economy

Claus Astrup and Sebastien Dessus

2001: The Effect of Distribution on Accumulation, Capacity Utilization and Employment: Testing the Wage-Led Hypothesis for Turkey

Ozlem Onaran and Engelbert Stockhammer

2001: Export-Led versus Import Substitution Industries: The Food Industry in Jordan

Ibrahim Saif

2001: The Gender Dimensions of Poverty in Egypt

Heba El-Laithy

2001: Economic Development and Female Labor Force Participation in Turkey: Time-Series Evidence and Cross-Province Estimates

Aysıt Tansel

2001: Testing the Efficiency of Turkish Banks

Ali Karacabey

2001: Inequality of Expenses: The Tunisian case

Salma Zouari-Bouattour and Kamel Jallouli

2001: The Poor in the Egyptian Labor Market during an Adjustment Period: for better or worse?

Tamer Afifi

2001: Export Led Industrialization and Gender Differences in Job Creation and Destruction: Micro Evidence from The Turkish Manufacturing Sector

Sule Ozler

2001: Aid, Trade, Cooperation & the EU: "Things Must Be Done Differently" to Rescue the Euromed Partnership

Nasser Saidi

2001: Determinants of Poverty in Rural Areas: Case of Savejbolagh Farmers in Iran

Javad Sadeghi, M. Toodehroosta and A. Amini

2001: From Demographic Transition to Population Boom and Bust: The Experience of Iran in The 1980s and 1990s

Hassan Hakimian

2001: Child Labor and Poverty Transmission: No Room For Dreams

Jackline Wahba

2001: SMEs Contribution to the Creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Region

Andrea Gallina

2001: Perceptions of the Central and Local Governments? Engagement in Corruptive Activities: the Case of Turkey

Fikret Adaman and Ali Carkoglu