Iran is ons of the best case studies among the oil producing countries in which the effects of oil revenue can be examined. While it has some of the basic characteristics of developing countries, it is endowed with enormous wealth. A combination of these factors has increased th…
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The phosphate rock industry is a key industry for the Jordanian economy being both the largest industrial employer and the main source of Foreign exchange earnings. The production and marketing activities of the Jordan Phosphate Mines Company have been affected by developments i…
This thesis integrates between three major fields of study: product design, supply chain management and sustainability. This thesis introduces product design modularity (PDM) as a product design methodology and evaluates its influence on supply chain operations. This is done wit…
Ever since its creation, Jordan has depended on foreign aid for her survival. Throughout its history (from the 1920's till the present day), the geopolitical position of the country has ensured it a continual flow of foreign aid by the Western World whom the Middle East has been…
This thesis studies the promotion and financing of industrial diversification in natural resource-dependent countries. It tries to contribute to the existing literature by addressing three research questions in three main chapters. Chapter 2 attempts to answer the following ques…
Prompted by calls to examine social and environmental disclosure beyond developed countries and, in particular, by studies that have begun to investigate practices in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, this study presents a comprehensive analysis of corporate enviro…
This thesis consists of three essays on sovereign risk and banking. In the first essay, we examine the determinants of sovereign risk in the Eurozone focusing on the recent crisis episode and search for a self-fulfilling contagion link by using an exogenous ECB policy announceme…
Although the number of researches measuring the efficiencies of higher education institutions has grown especially for the last two decades, literature of both parametric and non-parametric research on HEIs in Turkey is relatively scant compared to the countries alike. This PhD …
Business Continuity Management (BCM) is a process that focuses on counteracting organizational risk, disasters and crises. Placing Business Continuity Management in the context of Strategic Planning (SP) will help organizations to cope with a wide range of unexpected incidents b…
The ready-made garments (RMG) manufacturing industry in Egypt is one of the main industries that supports the Egyptian economy through exports‟ earnings. Egypt‟s RMG exports are considerably less in quantity than other RMG exporting countries despite the advantages that Egypt ha…
This thesis aimed at investigating the impact of changes in the exchange rate on the demand for money and the trade balance in Jordan. Using Johansen (1991 and 1995) approach for cointegration analysis and the equilibrium-correction model (ECM), we examined the existence of stab…
This thesis aims to study the causes and effects of military expenditure on economic growth in India. Three aspects of this subject are concentrated which link well with the core stylised facts of the Indian defence effort and its developmental problems: the 'security dilemma' i…
This thesis is a contribution towards the macroeconomic and monetary analysis of developing countries. A fully-fledged macroeconometric model is theoretically specified, econometrically estimated and dynamically simulated for policy analysis. The model contains demand side, supp…
ABSTRACT In this thesis, the researcher investigates the implicit and other motivations for Saudi outbound tourism. The Saudi Arabian outbound tourism market is recognised as one of the biggest tourism expenditure. Despite this, research relating to the motivations for Saudi out…
This thesis investigates three aspects of Lebanese banking: Bank Perfonnance, Bank Capital and Bank Mergers. The first chapter tackles the issue of bank perfonnance, with focus on the differences between domestic and foreign banks. We study panel data of almost the entire popula…
Important problems have been frequently encountered in connection with the insurance covers of projects in the Arab Gulf Area. An attempt to investigate such problems and recommend solutions thereto is given in this thesis. The investigation started by a study of the economic an…
The main concern of this thesis is to assess the performance of the transnational corporations in the transfer of technology to Egypt. The thesis first, reviews the economic literature concerning the economic rationale behind the phenomenon of direct foreign investment and its e…
In this study linear programming is used to develop gross margin maximising farm plans for an examplar state farm in Iraq. The activities of the farm included a variety of cash crops, fodder crops, poultry and livestock activities. Sensitivity analyses were also used to serve as…
The concept of a "production function" as means to measuring efficiency began in 1928 with the seminal paper by Cobb and Douglas (1928). However, until the 1950s, production functions were largely used as a tool for studying the functional distribution of income between capital …