Middle East: Business & Economics: Finance

Source: Global Finance
Summary: The article reports that Saudi Arabia is opening its stock markets for foreign investors and is planning to permit foreign airlines to have domestic routes. It mentions that the country puts new economic and financial team to manage the economic reforms.

Source: Asian Academy of Management Journal of Accounting & Finance
Summary: This paper focuses on earnings management designed to achieve earnings targets within the framework of the Tunisian market.

Source: African Review of Money, Finance, and Banking
Summary: This paper investigates the relationship between several indicators of the development of the financial sector and economic growth in Algeria, using data for the period 1979-2004.

Source: World Policy Journal
Summary: In this article the author examines Islamic microfinance and the peace process in Palestine.

Source: African Review of Money, Finance, and Banking
Summary: This paper examines the impact of financial repression policies from 1970 to 2002, and the results of the financial liberalization polices between the years 2003-2007 on the financial development of Iraq.

Source: Thunderbird International Business Review
Summary: The conventional view holds that the current global financial crisis was caused by extraordinarily high liquidity, reckless lending practices, and the rapid pace of financial engineering, which created complex and opaque financial instruments used for risk transfer.

Source: The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
Summary: Israel's civil litigation system, derived primarily from that of England and Wales, gradually evolved a series of American-influenced provisions into sector-specific Israeli law (from 1988 to 2005).

Source: Middle East Policy
Summary: The article discusses the financial situation of Syria. During Bashar al-Asad's regime in Syria, for a time the global financial crisis was considered to be an opportunity as opposed to the expected downfall for the nation.

Source: Journal of Money Laundering Control
Summary: The purpose of this paper is to analyze the political and economic dilemma that Islamic finance (IF) poses on some Muslim Governments of either encouraging or restraining this global phenomenon; in spite of their awareness of the developmental role that IF plays.

Source: Applied Financial Economics
Summary: The process of financial liberalization has stiffened competition in an environment characterized by a revolution in information technology and provided an incentive for bank management to focus on improving efficiency.