Overview
- Addresses economic challenges and policy reforms in the MENA region
- Provides diverse theoretical and empirical studies
- Offers region-specific policy recommendations
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region (PDMENA)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
This volume addresses economic challenges and policy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Despite important resources and strategic advantages, the region suffers from a number of economic, social, and political problems that impedes normal economic take-off. The volume contains theoretical and empirical studies covering individual countries and panel studies addressing these economic challenges. Chapters address issues such as economic growth; poverty and inequality; subsidies and public finances policies; external trade and financial liberalization; remittances,corruption, transparency, and institutions; renewable energy, digitalization, terrorism, regional integration, capital flight,money laundering, financial development and brain drain. Providing a comprehensive understanding of the most important and urgent economic challenges in the region, this volume will be a useful reference for researchers and policymakers interested in the MENA region.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Dr. Mohamed Sami Ben Ali is a professor of Economics at Qatar University. Previously, he was head of the economics department and member of the scientific board at HEC Business School, Tunisia. He holds a H.D.R. degree, the highest European qualification for research. Previously, he received a Ph.D. in Economics with high honors from the University of Lille, France, an M.Phil. (D.E.A.) in International Finance and International Trade, and a B.A. in Business Economics. He has been teaching for the past years at graduate and undergraduate levels in Tunisia, Qatar, and France where he was a visiting professor. Dr. Ben Ali is serving as associate editor for Springer and De Gruyter journals and editor for Palgrave, Springer and Routledge (Taylor and Francis) books series. He published a couple of books on economic development and has been named in 2021 as a highly cited researcher on the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDG’s) by Times Higher Education ranking. He also has published numerous articles in French and in English in international refereed academic journals on different economic development and international monetary macroeconomics issues. He is actively participating and chairing in numerous international conferences.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Key Challenges and Policy Reforms in the MENA Region
Book Subtitle: An Economic Perspective
Editors: Mohamed Sami Ben Ali
Series Title: Perspectives on Development in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-92133-0
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Economics and Finance, Economics and Finance (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92132-3Published: 23 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-92135-4Published: 23 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-92133-0Published: 22 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2520-1239
Series E-ISSN: 2520-1247
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 161
Number of Illustrations: 7 b/w illustrations, 19 illustrations in colour
Topics: Development Economics, Economic Growth, Economy-wide Country Studies, Environmental Economics