Macroeconomic issues and policies in the Middle East and North Africa /
This book brings together recent research bt IMF staff on how the region's countries are grappling with these challenges. It rigorously analyzes policy alternatives for a range of relevant topics-including the implications of changing demographic trends for growth and unemployment, determinants...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Washington, DC :
International Monetary Fund,
[2001]
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface / Horst Köhler
- Acknowledgments
- Economic challenges in the Middle East and North Africa--an overview / Zubair Iqbal
- pt. 1. Selected macroeconomic and financial issues. Demographic transition in the Middle East: implications for growth, employment, and housing / Pierre Dhonte, Rina Bhattacharya, and Tarik Yousef
- Determinants of inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran--a macroeconomic analysis / Olin Liu and Olumuyiwa S. Adedeji
- Financial liberalization in Arab countries / Karim Nashashibi, Mohamad Elhage, and Annalisa Fedelino
- Monetary operations and government debt management under Islamic banking / V. Sundararajan, David Marston, and Ghiath Shabsigh
- Addendum: Recent developments in Islamic banking / Ghiath Shabsigh
- Fiscal sustainability with nonrenewable resources / Nigel Chalk
- pt. 2. External policies. External stability under alternative nominal exchange rate anchors: an application to the Gulf Cooperation Council countries / S. Nuri Erbaș, Zubair Iqbal, and Chera L. Sayers
- Real exchange rate behavior and economic growth in the Arab Republic of Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia / Ilker Domac̦ and Ghiath Shabsigh
- Exchange rate unification, the equilibrium real exchange rate, and the choice of exchange rate regime: the case of the Islamic Republic of Iran / V. Sundararajan, Michel Lazare, and Sherwyn E. Williams
- Addendum: Exchange system reforms in the Islamic Republic of Iran: a note on past and current experiences / Ghiath Shabsigh
- Export performance and competitiveness in Arab countries / Karim Nashashibi, Ward Brown, and Annalisa Fedelino
- The impact of European Union Association agreements on Mediterranean countries / Henri Ghesquiere
- Addendum: Implementation of the European Union Association agreements / Daniel Hardy, Nicole Laframboise, and Edouard Martin
- Estimating trade protection in Middle Eastern and North African countries / Maria-Angels Oliva.