The incidence of road crashes in the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries is rising at an alarming rate and is now the leading cause of death among young adults, as confirmed by recent public health reports1. When comparing socio-economic indicators such as road crash fatality rates, healthy years of life lost due to crashes, and percentage of GDP lost, MENA countries now rank among s...

Az egyesített növekedéselmélet célja, hogy a gazdasági fejlődés hosszútávú tendenciáit egységes elméleti keretbe ágyazva magyarázza meg. Ennek megfelelően egy sikeres modellnek képesnek kell lennie különböző időszakok, rezsimek közötti átmenetek keretben történő modellezésére. Ebben tanulmányban, három növekedési korszak jellemzőinek áttekintése után, két modellt mutatunk be. Míg Hansen-Prescot...

BACKGROUND Dengue virus (DENV) infection is widespread and its disease burden has increased in past decades. However, little is known about the epidemiology of dengue in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). METHODOLOGY / PRINCIPAL FINDINGS Following Cochrane Collaboration guidelines and reporting our findings following PRISMA guidelines, we systematically reviewed available records across...

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region’s current challenges for political and economic transformation. This MENA Trends Report focuses on the following issues: youth unemployment, gender, education, economy, the financial system, and the rule of law. It examines ten Arab countries: Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Libya, Tunisia, West Bank and Gaza, Syria, and Yemen. When comparisons ...

What are the prospects for long-run economic growth? One prominent line of thinking is trend toward stagnation. Stagnationism has a long history in economics, beginning prominently with Malthus and occasionally surfacing different guises. Prominent themes here following: Will growth slow perhaps even reverse under weight resource depletion? overpopulation diminishing returns lower living standa...

The interaction between income distribution, accumulation, employment and the utilization of capital is central to macroeconomic models in the `heterodox' tradition. This paper examines the stylized pattern of these variables using US data for the period after 1948. We look at the trends and cycles in individual time series and examine the bivariate cycical patterns among the variables. JEL cla...

the authors examine the effects of government expenditure on economic growth in iran, using annual data for the period of 1973-2003. in this paper, they lookat the offects of human, physical capital, and government budget on gdp. in the model developed in this paper, accumulation of human capital is dependent on physical. human capital, and government budget as well. the result indicate that go...

This paper compares Kaleckian and Harrodian models of accumulation. The simplicity of the canonical Kaleckian model is appealing but more complex Harrodian speci…cations are preferable from a behavioral perspective. The local instability of Harrodian-inspired speci…cations, moreover, o¤ers a uni…ed understanding of both trend and cycles. JEL classi…cation: E12, E32, O41

Abstract In this study, we applied recently developed panel unit root and cointegration techniques to examine the long-run real income per capita and price elasticities for demand of electricity in selected Middle East and North African (MENA) countries using an annual data series from 1990 to 2011.Our main finding from the panel analysis is that the demand for electricity is highly price ela...

This paper decomposes OECD convergence into contributions from sectoral productivity growth and contributions from employment shift across sectors. While productivity growth in services and agriculture contributed significantly to convergence, the contributions from employment shift and productivity growth in manufacturing are statistically insignificant. JEL: O41, O47