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Earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa
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Earnings inequality, unemployment, and poverty in the Middle East and North Africa

Author: Wassim N Shahin; Ghassan Dibeh
Publisher: Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2000.
Series: Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 215
Edition/Format: Book : Conference publication : English
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Material Type: Conference publication
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Wassim N Shahin; Ghassan Dibeh
ISBN: 0313309779 9780313309779
OCLC Number: 42296218
Notes: Papers presented at the Conference on Earnings Inequality, Unemployment, and Poverty in the Middle-East and North Africa (MENA), 1998 in Byblos, Lebanon.
Description: xiv, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Preface / Wassim Shahin and Ghassan Dibeh -- Some introductory observations on poverty and earnings : inequality in the Arab world / Elias H. Tuma -- Measurement of inequality : motivation and survey / Sourushe Zandvakili -- Unraveling the paradox in Egypt's trends in income : inequality and poverty / Ayman Kandeel and Jeffrey B. Nugent -- Trade reform and the poor in Morocco : a rural-urban general equilibrium analysis of reduced protection / Hans Lofgren -- Earning profiles of women workers and education in the Middle East / E. Mine Cinar -- Fiscal policy and social welfare in selected MENA countries / Muhammad Q. Islam -- Does structural adjustment spell relief from unemployment? : a comparison of four IMF "success stories" in the Middle East and North Africa / Karen Pfeifer -- Earnings, education, experience, and gender : Kuwaiti evidence / Salim Chishti and Badria Khalaf -- What accounts for earnings inequality in Jordan and how can labor policies help reduce poverty? / Zafiris Tzannatos -- Unemployment, low wages, and income inequality : the triangle of poverty in the Middle East and North Africa / Berch Berberoglu -- Ideology, economic restructuring, and women's work in Iran (1976-1996) / Fatemeh E. Moghadem.
Series Title: Contributions in economics and economic history, no. 215
Responsibility: edited by Wassim Shahin and Ghassan Dibeh.

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