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Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle East and North Africa
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Book Code: GM0977
ISBN: 0-313-30977-9
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30977-9
256 pages, figures, tables
Greenwood Press
Publication: 4/30/2000
List Price: $131.95 (UK Sterling Price: £75.00)
Availability: Out of stock
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
Reviews:
  • ...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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