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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254881803321

Titolo

The Middle East Economies in Times of Transition / / edited by Ahmed Galal, Ishac Diwan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-52977-6

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 359 p.)

Collana

International Economic Association Series, , 2662-6330

Disciplina

330.956

Soggetti

Regional economics

Spatial economics

Macroeconomics

International economics

Economic policy

Development economics

Political economy

Regional/Spatial Science

Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics

International Economics

Economic Policy

Development Economics

International Political Economy

Middle East Economic conditions 1979-

Middle East Economic policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Diwan and Galal looks at the structure and prospects of the Middle East economies after the 2011 Uprisings, focusing on issues of economic growth, inequality, the impact of oil, and the unfolding political transitions. On the growth question, the book looks into the extent of structural transformation of the economy, the political economy



reasons for the lack of structural change, and the external conditions in the EU and in the GCC that underpin the lack of structural change. On inequality, the book offers new measures of equality of opportunity in human development and in the job market, and it also reviews the complex political economy of subsidy removal. Regarding natural resources, the volume provides three innovations: connecting the notion of 'oil curse' to the global phenomena of asset bubbles; evidence that resource curse effects do not rise monotonically with the size of the resource rent, but rather, according to an inverted U shape; and an extension of the concept of rent to the other non-oil rents that are also predominant in the region. Finally, the volume places the political transition in the region in a global perspective using various methods – theoretical, comparative, and empirical, and it explores the relationship between democracy in its variety of forms and economic development.