The soft aspects of the infrastructure regionalism in Middle East have previously been studied, while impact region’s hard infrastructure, particular transport has received little attention. This paper contributes to study by investigating relationship between and economic integration. It analyses whether state domestic cross-border region promotes regional trade. is done addressing following s...

This study investigates the predictive power of financial stress on dynamic Middle East and North Africa (MENA) market returns from 2007 to 2021. Based a Quantile Regression, we show that has highest abilities at lower quantiles when is bearish. Then, propose Hidden Markov Model (HMM) based transition matrix understand relationship between index MENA stock dynamics. We find effect return reveal...

the islamic awakening with changing power’s balance of middle east and north africa, has changed role of regional powers. therefore, geopolitical contest between iran and turkey have been more important. tunisia and egypt as leaders of revolutionary changes, are the most important. in this research we tried to compare iran and turkey's role in relation to these two countries. the research’...

Abstract In 2004, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt, and Jordan signed the Agadir Agreement (AA), a free trade agreement with intention of encouraging closer cooperation in trade. The AA came into force 2007 relies on EU's rules origin. Contrary to existing explanations, which suggest that little impact intraregional is result local political elites weak state institutions, this article amends concept is...

This paper focuses on the distribution of working poor by income level across countries and examines how indicators such as unemployment, labour force, number self-employed, impact that distribution. In addition, it also official development assistance massive influx refugees a result Syrian conflict. Four levels are analysed using panel data technique. The sample includes 5 main host (Egypt, I...

Exploiting a unique firm level dataset available for four countries (Egypt, Jordan, Kuwait and Yemen), this paper assesses the role of real exchange rate (RER) undervaluation as determinant quantity exports (intensive margin) well probability exporting more products or opening new export destinations (extensive We find that moderate RER up to certain threshold unconditionally promotes firms' at...

Women’s participation in the economy, as integral part of their empowerment, is a major challenge facing the MENA-region, since women’s labour market participation (LMP) is among the lowest throughout the world in these countries. Nonetheless, on a broad comparative scale, the determinants of women’s LMP in this region are understudied, especially the interplay between them. We use representati...

Human schistosomiasis is one of the most common Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTDs); it is an intravascular parasite caused by the trematode blood fluke (Schistosoma). Most human infections are caused by S. haematobium, S. mansoni, and S. japonicum. An estimated total of 237 people are infected worldwide, and 732 million people are at risk of being infected. In the Middle East and North Africa (...

‎Let $mathcal{A}$ be a unital Banach algebra‎, ‎$mathcal{M}$ be a left $mathcal{A}$-module‎, ‎and $W$ in $mathcal{Z}(mathcal{A})$ be a left separating point of $mathcal{M}$‎. ‎We show that if $mathcal{M}$ is a unital left $mathcal{A}$-module and $delta$ is a linear mapping from $mathcal{A}$ into $mathcal{M}$‎, ‎then the following four conditions are equivalent‎: ‎(i) $delta$ is a Jordan left de...

emergence of primary signs of muslims uprising in tunisia, egypt, libya, bahrain, yemen, and, in a somehow limited form, in arabia and jordan against local tyranny and foreign colonization, made big powers and western expansionist countries to expropriate public movements to their own benefit and to deviate such movements from their true path. in fact, the matter of process or project nature of...