Abstract The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is the top destination for Russian food exports, grains in particular. Focusing on Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Saudi Arabia, this chapter shows that Russia’s trade with MENA countries strongly affected by bilateral political relations. Russia banned most imports from Turkey over a conflict 2016. In same year, improved intergovernmental cooperatio...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW A volume of quality HIV data has materialized recently in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This review provides a thematic narrative of the patterns of HIV infection transmission in this region in light of these data. RECENT FINDINGS Tens of integrated bio-behavioral surveillance surveys among hard-to-reach key populations at higher risk have been conducted in MENA i...

Article history: Received October 1, 2011 Received in Revised form November, 14, 2011 Accepted 30 January 2012 Available online 20 February 2012 In this study, the backpropagation neural network (BPNN) is tested for the ability to forecast the daily volatility of two stock market indices from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region using volume; namely Morocco and Saudi Arabia. Volatilit...

P ar t 1 S tr uc tu ra l R ef or m s in th e M id dl e Ea st a nd N or th A fr ic a After more than twenty years of rapid economic growth, falling oil prices in the mid-1980s and an abrupt decline in investment and growth pushed Arab governments to rethink their basic frameworks for economic management (Page 1998; World Bank 1995).2 The post-independence Arab socialist period left virtually all...

Large amounts of jihadi video content on YouTube along with the vast array of relational data that can be gathered opens up innovative avenues for exploration of the support base for political violence. This exploratory study analyses the online supporters of jihad-promoting video content on YouTube, focusing on those posting and commenting upon martyr-promoting material from Iraq. Findings sug...

This study aims to develop a better Financial Statement Fraud (FSF) detection model by utilizing data from publicly available financial statements of firms in the MENA region. We an FSF using powerful ensemble technique, XGBoost (eXtreme Gradient Boosting) algorithm, that helps identify fraud set sample companies drawn Middle East and North Africa (MENA) The issue class imbalance dataset is add...

The article dwells on configuring Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in three political economy dimensions: population, gross national income per capita current international dollars converted by purchasing power parities (per GNI PPP), human development measured the Human Development Index (HDI). Furthermore, relationship between mentioned dimensions self-reported life satisfaction ...

Quinoa is recognized as a crop of great value in terms of tolerance to abiotic stresses and there is growing interest to introduce it in marginal agricultural production systems worldwide. Also, quinoa is one of the most nutritious food crops currently known and the nutritive properties of the crop are seen as a mean to fight malnutrition globally. Various quinoa cultivars have been screened fo...

The purpose of this paper is to investigate vulnerability to financial contagion in a set of expanding emerging markets of the Middle East and North Africa, during seven episodes of international financial crisis. Using Fry & Baur (2005) fixed-effect panel approach, we significantly reject the hypothesis of a joint regional contagion. However, using a battery of bivariate contagion tests based ...

The sourcing of low-cost finance to facilitate corporate expansion on competitive terms is a major challenge to firms from emerging markets. There are additional constraints in Islamic markets as financial instruments must adhere to shari’ya law. This paper examines the approach taken by the Sudan Telecommunications Company (Sudatel) to obtain cost effective equity financing using secondary lis...