The purpose of this article is identify and explain gender differences in eight important
socioeconomic attitudes and political priorities among randomized samples of both males …

The purpose of this qualitative study is to understand the reasons why more business
practitioners are not implementing continuity plans within their organizations. Using the …

The years 1995—2006 were for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) a period of
catching up to the rest of the world. During this period, export growth, excluding minerals …

This paper investigates the relationship between firm-level productivity and investment
climate (IC) for a large number of countries (23) and manufacturing industries (8). We first …

Benchmarking with other regions of the world, MENA is considered as one of the least
globally and regionally integrated regions of the world. Home to 5.5 percent of the world's …

Within the literature, there are two contrasting views about whether military interventions
affect a region's stability. One body of research indicates that military interventions positively …

The Arab countries are facing one of their most difficult periods of the modern history. The
popular uprisings which broke out at the beginning of 2011 in Tunisia and then spread to …

Asserts that education has large untapped potential to contribute to human capital,
wellbeing, and growth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, but despite large …

My dissertation aims to design a proposed solution by studying and better understanding the
specific cultural related issues of water conservation. Water, a valuable element of life, has …

This dissertation analyzes how developing countries could attract more private capital flows
and benefit from these flows with higher productivity levels while avoiding some negative …