Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

Herausgeber: Dibeh, Ghassan; Shahin, Wassim

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The past ten years for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region countries have registered an extreme deterioration in at least one measure of social and economic welfare: earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty. The combination of slow economic growth, population explosion, and decline in labor productivity led to the reversal of the economic gains achieved during the economic boom in the 1970s. In contrast to that period, growth per capita (GDP) in 1980-1991 for Arab countries was -0.2%. Several indicators point to the extent of the problems faced today by the region's countries. Although the percentage of poverty declined for the majority of the regions in the world in 1985-1990, it has increased in the MENA region. The purpose of this volume is to address the conditions of earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty in the MENA region and the problems associated with these factors; to determine the state and magnitude of these problems through various country studies; and to provide solutions to alleviate the negative conditions facing developing economies, with special emphasis on the MENA countries.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury 3PL
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 561g
• ISBN-13: 9780313309779
• ISBN-10: 0313309779
• Artikelnr.: 21170471

Autorenporträt

WASSIM SHAHIN is Dean of the School of Business at the Lebanese American University in Byblos, Lebanon, and author of Money Supply and Deficit Financing in Economic Development (Quorum Books, 1992). GHASSAN DIBEH is Chairperson of the Department of Economics at the School of Business at the Lebanese American University in Byblos, Lebanon.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Some Introductory Observations on Poverty and Earnings Inequality
in the Arab World, by Elias Tuma Measurement of Inequality: Motivation and
Survey, by Sourushe Zandvakili Unraveling the Paradox in Egypt's Trends in
Income Inequality and Poverty, by Ayman Kandeel and Jeffrey B. Nugent Trade
Reform and the Poor in Morocco: A Rural-Urban General Equilibrium Analysis
of Reduced Protection, by Hans Lofgren Earning Profiles of Women Workers
and Education in the Middle East, by E. Mine Cinar Fiscal Policy and Social
Welfare in Selected MENA Countries, by Muhammad Q. Islam Does Structural
Adjustment Spell Relief from Unemployment? Comparison of Four IMF Success
Stories in the Middle East and North Africa by Karen Pfeifer Earnings,
Education, Experience and Gender: Kuwaiti Evidence by Salim Chishti and
Badria Khalaf What Accounts for Earnings Inequality in Jordan and How Can
Labor Policies Help Reduce Poverty? by Zafiris Tzannatos Unemployment, Low
Wages, and Income Inequality: The Triangle of Poverty in the Middle East
and North Africa by Berch Berberoglu Ideology, Economic Restructuring and
Women's Work in Iran (1976-1996) by Fatemeh E. Moghadem Selected
Bibliography Index