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

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Wassim Shahin, Ghassan Dibeh

Book Code: GM0977

ISBN: 0-313-30977-9

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30977-9

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256 pages, figures, tables

Greenwood Press

Publication: 4/30/2000

List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)

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Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions in Economics and Economic History

Series Number: 215

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...the papers contained in this volume go a long way in shedding light on the MENA region's income and poverty patterns...provides a valuable addition to the growing literature on income distribution and poverty in the developing world.
—Journal of Third World Studies Fall 2002

Description: 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.

Table of Contents:

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

LC Card Number: 99-046153

LCC Class: HC498

Dewey Class: 330


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