This paper analyzes the impacts of financial liberalization and foreign bank entry on competitiveness and soundness of domestic banking system as well as credit growth in association with financial sector development, focusing on MENA region’s comparative benchmarking performances with those of middle -income countries. We find that financial sector development is positively related to foreign ...

In the advent of coronavirus pandemic and push to digital work, this op-ed argues that emerging economy can be vital for enabling refugee women in Middle East North Africa (MENA) overcome existing livelihood barriers. Since outbreak Syrian crisis 2011, over 6.5 million refugees have been registered by United Nations High Commissioner Refugees (UNHCR) globally. Neighbouring countries across MENA...

BACKGROUND There has been growing interest in the stalled transition to adulthood in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and its consequences for young people's socioeconomic outcomes. However, little is known about how important life transitions relate to youth psychosocial well-being in the region. OBJECTIVE Drawing on a life course framework, we estimate the associations between making...

So far, we have argued that the impact on development of the considerable education progress recorded in the region has been less than expected in terms of economic growth, the promotion of equality, and reduction of poverty. How much of this outcome is the consequence of particular characteristics of the region’s education systems and how much is due to weak linkages between education and labo...

T he main objective of this study is to estimate the spatial spillover effects of the economic growth among the selected countries of MENA region. For this purpose, the Spatial Durbin Model in the framework of spatial dynamic panel data was estimated during the period of 1970-2010. The spatial Diagnostic tests affirmed the occurrence of spatial positive autocorrelation phenomenon for...

although the hiv pandemic is witnessing a decline in the number of new infections in most regions of the world, the middle east and north africa (mena) has a rapidly growing hiv problem. while generating hiv data has been consistently increasing since 2005, mena’s contribution to the global hiv literature is just over 1% and the existing evidence often falls behind the academic standards. sever...

Erik Sandberg and Carlos Mena, Exploring strategic strengths and weaknesses of retail purchasing groups, 2015, International Review of Retail Distribution & Consumer Research, (25), 3, 276-297. International Review of Retail Distribution & Consumer Research is available online at informaworldTM: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09593969.2014.982679 Copyright: Taylor & Francis (Routledge): SSH Titles h...