The Routledge Handbook on the Middle East Economy

This Handbook captures the salient features of Middle Eastern economies and critically examines the public policy responses required to address the challenges and opportunities across the region.

Auteur

Hassan Hakimian is Professor of Economics and Director of the Middle Eastern Studies Department (MESD) at Hamad Bin Khalifa University in Qatar and Emeritus Professor at SOAS University of London. During 2010-19, he was Director of the London Middle East Institute (LMEI) and Reader in the Economics Department at SOAS University of London. Dr Hakimian is a Founding Member and a past President of the International Iranian Economic Association (IIEA), a Research Fellow and Chair of the Advisory Committee of the Economic Research Forum (ERF) in Cairo. In 2003 he launched the Routledge Political Economy of the Middle East and North Africa series.

Contenu

1. Introduction

Hassan Hakimian

Section I. Growth and Development in Comparative Perspectives

2. Explaining Growth in the Middle East

Jeffrey B. Nugent

3. Is MENA Exceptional? Evidence from Structuralist and Comparative Perspectives

Julia C Devlin

Section II. Labour Force and Human Development

4. Arab Human Development in Comparative Context

Khalid Abu-Ismail and Niranjan Sarangi

5. Private Returns to Investment in Education in MENA Countries

Aysit Tansel

6. Women's Employment and Labour Force Participation: Puzzles, Problems and Research Needs

Massoud Karshenas and Valentine M. Moghadam

Section III. Natural Resources, Resource Curse and Trade

7. Can the GCC Economies Escape the Oil Curse?

Raimundo Soto

8. From Oil Rents to Inclusive Growth: Lessons from the MENA Region

Hassan Hakimian

9. Understanding Water Conflicts in the MENA Region: A Comparative Analysis Using a Restructured Water Poverty Index

Hatem Jemmali and Caroline A Sullivan

10. Trade and Economic Growth in the MENA Region: Do Trade in Goods and Trade in Services Differ in their Impact on Growth?

Fida Karam and Chahir Zaki

Section IV. Poverty, Inequality and Social Policy

11. Poverty and Vulnerability in the MENA Region

Khalid Abu-Ismail

12. Measuring Inequality in the Middle East

Facundo Alvaredo, Lydia Assouad and Thomas Piketty

13. Inequalities in Early Childhood Development in the Middle East and North Africa Caroline Krafft and Safaa El-Kogali

14. Social Policy in the MENA Region

Mahmood Messkoub

Section V. Institutions and Transition to Democracy

15. Religion and Politics: Why the West got Rich and the Middle East Did Not

Jared Rubin

16. Islam and Economic Development

David Cobham and Abdallah Zouache

17. The Arab Spring, and after: Economic Features and Policy Challenges

David Cobham and Abdallah Zouache

18. The Youth Bulge: The Mismeasured, Misunderstood and Mistreated Arab Youth

Zafiris Tzannatos

19. Arab Development and the Transition to Democracy

Samir Makdisi

Section VI. Corruption, Conflict and Refugees

20. A Pyramid of Privilege: How Cronyism Shapes Business-State Relationship in the Middle East

Izak Atiyas, Ishac Diwan and Adeel Malik

21. Refugees in the MENA Region: Historical Overview, Effects and Challenges

Jeffrey B. Nugent

22. Gendered Socioeconomic Impacts of Conflict in the Middle East

Jennifer C. Olmsted