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Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues »
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5089/9781557753328.071
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
This volume, edited by Said El-Naggar, is the fifth in a series of seminars dealing with economic issues of particular importance to the Arab countries. Held in Manama, Bahrain, in February 1993, it covered topics...

1. Economic Development of the Arab Countries: The Basic Issues »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
The prospects for Arab economic development in the nineties is a highly complex subject that does not easily lend itself to generalizations valid for all countries....

2. Economic Reform in the Arab Countries: A Review of Structural Issues »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
Despite adverse exogenous factors, Arab countries have achieved important economic gains in recent years. Nevertheless, many of them remain subject to internal and external constraints that prev...

3. Investment Policies and Major Determinants of Capital Flows to Arab Countries »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
Objectives and the Global Framework This paper examines the flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) into the Arab countries, its developments during 1970–90, differen...

4 Arab Capital Flows: Recent Trends and Policy Implications »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
International financial intermediation since the mid-eighties has made an enormous leap in apparent efficiency going hand in hand with the unprecedented explosion of cross-border capital flows,...

5 Inter-Arab Labor Movements: Problems and Prospects »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
Introduction This paper deals with inter-Arab labor movements in the light of major developments in the Arab countries in the last two decades. With the quadrupling o...

8. European Economic Integration and the Arab Countries »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
EC-1992, the European Economic Space, and Extending Integration Toward Eastern Europe: Checking the Meanings Over the last few years, a comprehensive insight into the...

6. Environmental Policies and Sustainable Development in the Arab World1 »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
Introduction Concern for the environment is as old as civilization. History abounds with examples of the wide variations in human understanding of the environment and...

7 Human Development in the Middle East and North Africa Region »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
The Cold War has ended. The distortionary environment imposed by the Cold War within and between Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) countries has also ended, providing them with the opportu...

Front Matter »
Source: Economic Development of the Arab Countries : Selected Issues
Series: Books
Publisher: INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND
Publication Date: 15 May 1993
ISBN: 9781557753328
Keywords: fdi, balance of payments, foreign investors, natural resources
This volume, edited by Said El-Naggar, is the fifth in a series of seminars dealing with economic issues of particular importance to the Arab countries. Held in Manama, Bahrain, in February 1993, it covered topics...