Middle East: Business & Economics: Economics

Source: Business Week - New York
Summary: The article discusses a plan announced by Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Seesi to build a second lane to Egypt's Suez Canal and deepen the existing canal on a one year timeline.

Source: Applied Economics Letters
Summary: This article examines the relationship between oil production and economic growth based on time-series data of Saudi Arabia from 1971 to 2010, and the Autoregressive Distributed Lag (ARDL) model approach for cointegration has been used.

Source: Journal of Development Economics
Summary: The United States used a combination of economic, political, and military means to effect change in Iraq. This article uses structural change tests to determine the effect of the intervention on security and economic metrics of success.

Source: Energy Policy
Summary: This article addresses the issue of electricity consumption, petroleum price, and economic growth in Algeria. The primary objective is to investigate and analyze the causal relationship between electricity consumption, Brent oil price, and economic growth for Algeria.

Source: International Journal of Social Economics
Summary: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the impact of inward foreign direct investment (FDI) and international trade on economic growth in Turkey for the post-liberalization period (1980-2010).

Source: Journal of Applied Sciences
Summary: The purpose of this research is to analyze the economics of gypsum production in Iran. The trend in production cost, selling price and profit are used to investigate economics of gypsum production.

Source: Applied Economics
Summary: This article aims to analyze the impact of changes in the monetary policy and the exchange rate on agricultural supply, prices and exports. The methodology used is based on the multivariate co-integration. approach.

Source: Economics of Transition
Summary: This article examines the process of export diversification by considering a directed policy effort by Syria - an economy in transition from both economic centralization and resource dependence - to liberalize its trade between 2001 and 2008.

Source: Journal of Palestine Studies
Summary: An analysis of the rise of tourism in Egypt during the past three decades suggests that the effects of liberalization and structural adjustment are constrained by the Egyptian political system.