Product Description: Diwan and Galal looks at the structure and prospects of the Middle East economies after the 2011 Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political transitions.

Product Description: Most governments in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region use trade policy to protect certain industries, provide tax incentives to promote a particular type of investment, and make subsidized credit available to firms of a certain size...read more

Product Description: Monetary Policy and Exchange Rate Regimes: Options for the Middle East examines some of the most pressing issues facing policymakers today. The authors offer answers to such questions as: Are the choices of exchange rate regime limited to hard fixing or fully floating? Are capital flight and banking crises avoidable? What is the best way to coordinate monetary and fiscal policies? The answers to these questions draw on the vast literature available on these topics as well as the lessons learned from recent crises, especially in East Asia and Latin America...read more

Product Description: Governments in developing countries often borrow to achieve socially desirable objectives and smooth consumption. But problems arise when borrowing is excessive relative to repayment capacity, when resources are expended inefficiently, and when revenues and expenditures are too inflexible to permit the conduct of countercyclical fiscal policy...read more

Product Description: Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia...read more

Product Description: 'The world is changing and so should the region. After decades of state domination of economic activity, many governments around the world are relying increasingly on the private sector to foster economic growth.'There is a growing consensus that the time has come for governments and private sector leaders of the Middle East and North Africa to forge a new partnership for development...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: As debate continues over regionalism versus multilateralism, pro-regional integration policymakers confront many questions. Which countries should they integrate with? What form of integration is best? And under what conditions will integration further the national interest? This book helps to answer such questions and, thus, assist countries in making the best of preferential trade agreements...read more

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