Abstract Using the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) and linked LSIC‐Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), this study finds that all immigrant women in Canada, those from Middle East North Africa (MENA) region have lowest labour force participation rate. After controlling for various socioeconomic factors employing logistic regressions on multiple rounds LSIC LSIC‐IMDB data...

There has been an unprecedented trade liberalization which started in the mid1980s in a wide spectrum of developing countries. In the same period, there have also been considerable changes in the tax structures of countries. This paper uses panel data on 65 countries, including 16 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries, for the period 1980–1997 to examine how tax structures responded to ...

To overcome the limited immunogenicity of the meningococcal group A (MenA) polysaccharide (Ps) vaccine, the protein conjugation technology was applied to the development of MenAfriVac® (Serum Institute of India Ltd.). The MenA Ps is covalently conjugated to a protein, which acts as an immunologic carrier. MenAfriVac is a purified MenA polysaccharide tetanus toxoid (TT) conjugated vaccine (10 μg...

This chapter describes the eight electricity generation technologies considered in this publication by illustrating the basic principles behind each form of electricity generation, the conventional sub-types for each technology, as well as their common application and specific technological characteristics. Lastly, it will outline certain characteristics of power plants for each technology, whi...

The objective of this paper is to investigate empirically the determinants capital structure for a sample 1101 firms from 11 MENA region countries over period 2003-2017. Using comparative approach, we find that firm-specific explain better differences in choices than other country-specific determinants. Comparisons between countries, sub-regions (GGC and non-GCC countries) legal origin (Common ...

This paper contributes to the renewable energy literature from two perspectives. First, we investigate factors driving deployment in MENA countries using economic, financial, and political variables including financial development, government effectiveness stability. investigation is empirically carried out by Panel Smooth Transition Model (PSTR) (Gonzales et al., 2017) that explicitly explores...