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on MENA - Middle East and North Africa |
| By: | Amina Said Alsayyad (IPC-IG); Abdel-Hameed Nawar (IPC-IG) |
| Abstract: | "The decline in oil prices from the middle of 2014 until the end of 2016 caused a huge fall in Saudi Arabias financial resources. The oil revenues in the national budget decreased from USD277 billion in 2014 to USD163 billion in 2015 and USD141 billion in 2016. This precipitous decline required pressing reforms to maintain the governments ability to undertake public economic and social spending, including economic and social transfers, and being the employer of last resort. Since HRH King Salman took office in January 2015, a large number of legislative, regulatory and public policy changes have been launched. In April 2016, Vision 2030 was launched, followed by two executive programmes, the National Transformation Programme (NTP) 2020 and the Fiscal Balance Programme (FBP) 2020, which aimed to balance the budget by 2020. The state apparatus was restructured, including the integration of the portfolio of labour and social affairs into a new Ministry of Labour and Social Development. Earlier this year, 10 additional programmes were announced to achieve the vision by 2030". (...) |
| Keywords: | Social, dimensions, Saudi, Vision, 2030, paradigm, shift |
| Date: | 2017–08 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:ipc:opager:361&r=ara |
| By: | Javed Ahmad Khan جاويد أحمد خان (Professor, Centre For West Asian Studies, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi أستاذ ، مركز دراسات غرب آسيا - الجامعة الملية الإسلامية - نيودلهي - الهند) |
| Abstract: | Arab Islamic world of the last three centuries is generally seen as an era of Muslim’s intellectual decline, with no worthwhile breakthrough in the human intellectual development. On the contrary, this period saw a renaissance in Western philosophical and scientific development, and their political and economic domination even in Muslim countries. A number of studies in this regard have tried to trace out as what contributions Muslim made during this period of colonial domination in the Arab Islamic world? What were the sources of inspirations and rationale for their religious based socio-economic intellectual awakening particularly since mid-eighteenth century? For, the scholars in modern times have argued that Muslims intellectuals’ awakening of last two hundred years are basically taken from the European intellectual developments. Albert Hourani in his work Arabic Thought in the Liberal Age 1798-1939 has mentioned how the modernizing trend of political and social thought in the Arab Middle East changed during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, in response to the expanding influence of Europe (Hourani 1962). Muslim countries that came under Western influence or domination were awakened by the European development and Muslim theorists, leadership of the time, accepted the importance of acquisition of Western knowledge on technology as well as intellectualism. ينظر العالم الإسلامي العربي في القرون الثلاثة الأخيرة بشكل عام إلى حقبة من التدهور الفكري للمسلمين ، مع عدم وجود أي انفراج جدير بالاهتمام في التنمية الفكرية البشرية. على العكس ، شهدت هذه الفترة نهضة في التطور الفلسفي والعلمي الغربي ، وهيمنتها السياسية والاقتصادية حتى في البلدان الإسلامية. لقد حاول عدد من الدراسات في هذا الصدد تحديد ما هي المساهمات التي قدمها المسلمون خلال هذه الفترة من الهيمنة الاستعمارية في العالم العربي الإسلامي؟ ما هي مصادر الإلهام والأساس المنطقي لاستيقاظهم الديني الاجتماعي الاقتصادي القائم على أساس ديني خاصة منذ منتصف القرن الثامن عشر؟ ل ، وقد جادل العلماء في العصر الحديث أن الصحوة المسلمين المثقفين من مائتي سنة الماضية مأخوذة أساسا من التطورات الفكرية الأوروبية. ألبير حوراني في عمله لقد ذكر الفكر العربي في العصر الليبرالي 1798-1939 كيف تغير اتجاه التحديث للفكر السياسي والاجتماعي في الشرق الأوسط العربي خلال القرنين التاسع عشر والنصف الأول من القرن العشرين ، استجابة للتوسع في تأثير أوروبا (حوراني 1962). استيقظت البلدان الإسلامية التي دخلت تحت النفوذ أو الهيمنة الغربية من قبل التنمية الأوروبية ووافق المنظرين المسلمين ، وقيادة ذلك الوقت ، على أهمية اكتساب المعرفة الغربية على التكنولوجيا وكذلك الفكر |
| Date: | 2017–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:abd:jkaubr:106&r=ara |
| By: | Cem Cakmakli (Department of Economics, Koç University); Selva Demiralp (Department of Economics, Koç University); Sevcan Yesiltas (Department of Economics, Koç University); Muhammed A. Yildirim (Department of Economics, Koç University) |
| Abstract: | This study examines the effects of price adjustments in the tobacco sector on inflation in Turkey. The findings show that the taxes on tobacco products increase inflation in the short-term. However, the effect is rather limited, a 16 basis points increase in inflation if the current 65.25% Special Consumption Tax (SCT) increases by 25 basis points. Factors that cause inflation in the long-run are cost and demand. The cost-driven impact of tobacco prices on inflation is rather limited due to the low weight of this product in the consumption basket. Nevertheless, the structure of the tax multiplier used in tobacco taxation increases cigarette prices in a non-linear fashion and, therefore, has the potential to disrupt inflationary expectations. |
| Date: | 2018–06 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:koc:wpaper:1811&r=ara |
| By: | Abderrazak Said Belabes عبدالرزاق سعيد بلعباس (Associate Professor Researcher, Islamic Economics Institute King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia باحث بمعهد الاقتصاد الإسلامي، جامعة الملك عبدالعزيز، المملكة العربية السعودية) |
| Abstract: | The paper deals with a Ph.D. thesis on economic feasibility study and its impact on the decision of financing in the banking sector, based on a sample composed of four Islamic banks operating in Jordan. After presenting the thesis plan along with the most important findings and recommendations, the paper proposes some methodological guidance for a foundation of the concept of feasibility study, which has been widely circulated in recent times, especially in the field of Awq?f, characterized primarily by the social impact. تتناول الورقة أطروحة دكتوراه عن دراسة الجدوى الاقتصادية وأثرها في اتخاذ قرار التمويل في القطاع المصرفي بناء على عينة مكونة من أربع مصارف إسلامية تعمل في الأردن. بعد عرض خطة الأطروحة وأهم النتائج والتوصيات التي توصلت إليها، تقترح الورقة بعض المعالم المنهجية لتأصيل مفهوم دراسة الجدوى الذي كثر تداوله في الآونة الأخيرة، لا سيما في مجال الأوقاف التي تتميّز بالدرجة الأولى بالأثر الاجتماعي. |
| Keywords: | Feasibility Study, Islamic Banks, Finance, Awq?f. دراسة الجدوى الاقتصادية، المصارف الإسلامية، التمويل، الأوقاف. |
| JEL: | E22 J42 |
| Date: | 2017–01 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:abd:jkaubr:14&r=ara |
| By: | International Monetary Fund |
| Abstract: | With substantial financial buffers, prudent fiscal policy, and sound financial sector, Qatar’s economy continues to successfully adjust to lower hydrocarbon prices, despite the diplomatic rift that is weighing on the outlook. The policy priorities are to entrench fiscal consolidation, maintain financial stability and deepen structural reforms to facilitate private-sector led growth and job creation. |
| Date: | 2018–05–30 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfscr:18/135&r=ara |
| By: | Raouf Jaziri (COSTECH EA 2223 - Connaissance et Organisation des systèmes techniques) |
| Abstract: | Despite their significant contribution to the present and the future of the Tunisian economy, family businesses suffer from serious succession problems that might jeopardize their sustainability. In this contribution, even though we can not reflect on the success of the family business succession process, we try to determine the process factors that may influence the perennity of family businesses. Our goal, in this article, is to elucidate the problem of the perennity of Tunisian family businesses from the angle of the succession success factors. We highlight, the perennity of the family business according to the four success key factors of the succession process including: the good relationship between the predecessor and the successor, the acceptance of the change of role, the role of the predecessor and finally his disengagement and withdrawal. We conduct an empirical study with a specific sample of 35 perennial Tunisian family businesses, in order to analyze the determinants of their perennity after succession. |
| Abstract: | Malgré leur contribution importante dans le présent et l'avenir de l'économie tunisienne, les entreprises familiales souffrent de sérieux problèmes successoraux qui peuvent mettre en péril leur pérennité. Dans cette contribution, si nous ne pouvons pas réfléchir sur le succès du processus de succession dans entreprises familiales, pouvons-nous déterminer les facteurs de ce processus qui influencent sur la pérennité des entreprises familiales ? Cette question attende toujours un éclairage académique dans la réalité tunisienne. Notre but, dans cet article, est d'élucider la problématique de la pérennité des entreprises familiales tunisiennes sous l'angle des facteurs clés de succès de la succession. Il est mis en évidence, la pérennité de l'entreprise en fonction des quatre facteurs de réussite du processus successoral notamment : la bonne relation entre le prédécesseur et le successeur, l'acceptation du changement de rôle, le rôle du prédécesseur et enfin son désengagement et retrait. Nous menons une étude empirique auprès d'un échantillon spécifique de 35 entreprises familiales tunisiennes pérennes, en vue d'analyser les facteurs déterminants de leur pérennité après la succession. |
| Keywords: | family business,succession,perennity,pérennité,entreprise familiale |
| Date: | 2018–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01782060&r=ara |
| By: | Mariem Bougueroua (Département Économie, Université de Mostaganem); Laurent Carnis (IFSTTAR/AME/DEST - Dynamiques Economiques et Sociales des Transports - Communauté Université Paris-Est - IFSTTAR - Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux) |
| Abstract: | This article analyses the road safety situation for Algeria since 1970 and its relation with the level of the economic development of the country. Applying the curve of Kuznets (1955) to road safety (especially for fatalities and injuries), the results show that there is such a curve for fatalities. However, such a relationship has not been verified for injuries. Moreover, the identified Kuznets curve for fatalities reached the turning point in Algeria. Despite an improvement of the economic situation, the large investment projects in infrastructures and transportation, economic development, yielding a positive impact on the road safety situation, a higher toll for fatalities and injuries could be expected if the authorities would not implement the appropriate countermeasures. |
| Abstract: | Cet article propose une analyse de la situation de l'insécurité routière en Algérie depuis 1970 et sa relation avec le niveau de développement économique du pays. L'approche de Kuznets (1955) est appliquée aux victimes des accidents routiers (tués et blessés lors d'un accident de la circulation), enregistrés pendant la période 1970-2015. Cette contribution identifie une relation de Kuznets pour les victimes tuées, mais pas pour les victimes blessées. Par ailleurs, les résultats de l'analyse montrent que cette relation a désormais atteint son maximum en Algérie (point d'inflexion). Malgré l'amélioration de la situation économique et les grands projets d'investissement notamment dans les infrastructures et les services de transports, le développement économique produit un impact positif sur la sécurité routière du pays, les autorités peuvent s'attendre à voir la situation se dégrader de nouveau si elles ne prennent pas des mesures appropriées. |
| Keywords: | Algeria,road safety,economic development,Kuznets curve,courbe de Kuznets,insécurité routière,développement économique,Algérie |
| Date: | 2018–04–25 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-01777863&r=ara |
| By: | International Monetary Fund |
| Abstract: | Selected Issues |
| Date: | 2018–05–30 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:imf:imfscr:18/136&r=ara |