Key Challenges and Policy Reforms in the MENA Region: An Economic Perspective

This volume addresses economic challenges and policy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Despite important resources and strategic advantages, the region suffers from a number of economic, social, and political problems that impedes normal economic take-off. The volume contains theoretical and empirical studies covering individual countries and panel studies addressing these economic challenges. Chapters address issues such as economic growth; poverty and inequality; subsidies and public finances policies; external trade and financial liberalization; remittances, corruption, transparency, and institutions; renewable energy, digitalization, terrorism, regional integration, capital flight, money laundering, financial development and brain drain. Providing a comprehensive understanding of the most important and urgent economic challenges in the region, this volume will be a useful reference for researchers and policymakers interested in the MENA region.

Chapter 1. Terrorism Impact on Public Debt and Government Borrowing Cost:
New Empirical Evidence from Long Run Relationship in MENA Countries.- Chapter 2. Digital gaps and economic inequalities in MENA countries: An Empirical Investigation.- Chapter 3. Assessing the determinants of capital flight from Tunisia: An ARDL Investigation framework.- Chapter 4. Assessing Macroeconomic, Distributive and Environmental Impacts of Energy Subsidies Removal in Tunisia with Input-Output Modeling.- Chapter 5. Remittances, Income inequality and Brain Drain: An Empirical Investigation for the MENA Region.- Chapter 6. Digital Divide and External Trade Liberalization in the MENA Region: A theoretical and Empirical investigations.- Chapter 7. The Relationship Between Money Laundering and Economic Growth in the MENA Region - A Simultaneous Equations Model.- Chapter 8. The Institutional Approach to Financial Development: Panel Study for the MENA Region.