AAs with many other developing countries, Saudi Arabia has experienced wide fluctuations in its export proceeds over the last two decades. This can be attributed to two factors: (1) heavy dependence of export proceeds on a single export commodity (commodity concentration) and fe…
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This research provides a comprehensive analysis of Arab countries barriers to intra-regional imports. In view of the Pan-Arab Free Trade Area (PAFTA) liberalization initiative, it assesses welfare gains and losses, terms of trade benefits to domestic producers, the impact on tar…
The dramatic growth performances of the newly industrializing countries (NICs) have led many economists to call them "economic miracles", and have drawn considerable attention to the hypothesis of export-led growth (ELG). In this dissertation we analyze the contribution of the e…
Since 1984, Nigeria has been forced to cope with the problems of overexpanded public sector expenditures fueled by higher petroleum prices in the oil-boom years. Faced with an acute economic crisis as a result of collapsed oil revenues and increasing foreign debt service obligat…
The primary objective of this study was to develop an understanding of the role of intuition, a so-called “hidden intelligence,” in the decision-making styles of leaders, using Nigeria and the United States as models of study. The study was undertaken to determine if there is a …
The aim of this thesis is to study the dynamic growth of the Pacific Rim particularly in the context of the establishment of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum (APEC). The development of APEC commenced in Canberra with one goal-to secure trade and investment liberalizat…
This study examined the effectiveness of small business and microenterprise development programs in assisting participants to start or expand a business, and/or transfer the skills gained from the programs to wage employment. Further analysis specifically concentrated on finding…
The purpose of this dissertation is to examine the role of the Indonesian government in developing its textile and garment industries which have experienced remarkable expansion during the New Order period. The study was motivated by the ongoing debate between the neoclassical e…
Egypts' trade reform, currently underway, represent conscious efforts to end the markedly long isolation of the Egyptian economy from the competitive forces of world market initially dictated by a commitment to industrialization through import substitution and heavy reliance on …
This research offers an empirical analysis of the economic effects on Morocco from implementing a Free Trade Area (FTA) with the European Union (EU) signed in 1996. Since the FTA translates largely into unilateral discriminatory tariff elimination against EU imports, there are c…
This study investigates and determines certain aspects of section 5 of Decree No. 10 of 1987 on the National Shipping Policy. It deals with the relative cost of construction of comparable vessels in Nigeria and in foreign countries (i.e. USA, U.K. Japan, and S. Korea). The Niger…
This study applies a neo-structuralist model of stagflationary monetary restraint and contractionary devaluation in a semi-industrialized economy to the case of Nigeria in 1960-1986. The model is based on the assumption that significant outlays for firms' working-capital needs a…
Indonesian palm oil producers are potentially effected by six factors. These six factors are: (1) changes in domestic palm oil sales and competition for hectarage from other domestically produced crops; (2) international demand for and supplies of palm oil and its substitutes; (…
In its very abstract and broad form, this study is a discussion of the dynamics of late capitalist development through exploring linkages between global capitalism, the role of the state and factory regimes at the plant level. At a lower level of abstraction and scope, this is a…
This study focuses on the establishment of an Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) common currency. It examines the political problems such as sovereignty, political instability and the economic problems such as monetary and trade ties with the old metropoles as th…
The international trade in oil and petroleum products is a breeding ground for a number of environmental problems. The Nigerian Government intends to promulgate a maritime decree to deal with some of these problems. In this area, however, national measures have consistently prov…
I develop and estimate a forward-looking structural model of firm entry, exit, and output supply decisions. The model is novel because it incorporates estimates of entry costs and scrap values. It is based on the discrete decision of a firm to participate in a market and the con…
This dissertation investigates the Granger-causality between exports, imports, and economic growth in 32 developing countries. The role of the imports variable in the investigation of exports-output causality is emphasized, enabling one to test for the cases direct causality, in…
The economy of Arab Republic of Egypt (hereafter, Egypt) had been centrally-planned for more than three decades. After Years of deteriorating economic performance, the Government of Egypt (GOE) recently elected to sell state-owned enterprises. The rationale offered was market fo…