The Middle East and North Africa: Cursed by Natural Resources?

Ali, Mohamed Sami Ben; Cockx, Lara; Francken, Nathalie

doi:10.1057/9781137480668_3

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“…The MENA region covers more than 15 million square kilometres from the Atlantic coast of Africa to Central Asia, as well as from the Mediterranean Sea to the Sahara Desert (Ben Ali, 2016). Specifically in terms of geography, the MENA region covers the Moroccan area in north west Africa to Iran in south west Asia and down to Sudan in Africa (Ismail et al, 2018).…”

Section: Demography Of the Mena Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Specifically in terms of geography, the MENA region covers the Moroccan area in north west Africa to Iran in south west Asia and down to Sudan in Africa (Ismail et al, 2018). The MENA region as a whole consists of 493 million people in 2022 and represents about 6 percent of the population on Earth (Ben Ali 2016;World Bank, 2022). The International Monetary Fund (IMF) stated that the population rate in the MENA region is estimated to be the same as the population in the European Union.…”

Section: Demography Of the Mena Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Hasan Adali,

Abdul Jabar,

Ismail

et al. 2024

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The MENA region is one of the most rapidly expanding food and beverage marketing platforms in the world. Malaysia as an international halal hub sees the MENA region as an important target for the export market of halal food products. Various efforts have been outlined and implemented towards accelerating the export activity to that region. Hence, this research was conducted to analyse the food ecosystem in the MENA region and the landscape of the halal food market there in detail and comprehensively. This research is a qualitative research which uses the literature review method entirely for the collection and analysis of data. The findings of the research are that the food products which are the main imports for the population in the MENA region are cereal, dairy products, meat, fruit and nuts, food preparation products, vegetables, vegetable fat and animal fat based products, coffee products, tea and spices, cereal and pastry preparation products, as well as sugar and honey products. The findings of this research are useful as it is a reference for the decision makers in the halal food industry in Malaysia who intend to market food products in the MENA region.

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Section: Demography Of the Mena Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Demography Of the Mena Regionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Marketing Opportunities for the Malaysia Halal Food Industry in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Region

Hasan Adali,

Abdul Jabar,

Ismail

et al. 2024

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“…Dissou and Yakautsava (2012) stated that corruption hinders economic growth, leading to increased taxes and decreased private investment. Corruption can result in a reduction in government revenue; thereby, there is a decrease in expanding health and education, reducing resources for growth (Ben Ali et al, 2016;Tanzi & Davoodi, 1998). d 'Agostino et al (2016) found that economic growth is negatively affected by corruption through indirect effects on military and consumer spending.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Nonlinear Effects of Corruption Control on Growth: A Threshold Model

Ho¹,

Nguyen²

2023

MNJE

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This paper aims to analyze the nonlinear impact of control of corruption on economic growth in ASEAN countries -the emerging, frontier, and developping fastest-growing economies in Asia. The authors used a combination of threshold effects and system -GMM (Generalized Method of Moments) method for panel data in the period 2002 to 2019 to achieve reliable estimation results. The estimation results show that there is a threshold value of control of corruption of 48.08. This indicates that economic growth is impacted nonlinearly by control of corruption, and this impact is mainly positive in the regions before and after the threshold value. However, when control of corruption surpasses 48.08, the positive impact of control of corruption on economic growth decreases significantly. Accordingly, excessive control of corruption can reduce the effectiveness of economic growth in ASEAN countries. Therefore, ASEAN countries need to combine control of corruption with many other policies, especially policies on improving the effectiveness of resource allocation in the economy to boost economic growth sustainably.

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“…Boikos (2016) investigated the relationship between corruption, public expenditure and human capital accumulation for a sample of 99 OECD and non OECD countries. The study concluded that corruption negatively impacts the accumulation of human capital (Ben Ali, Cockx, & Francken, 2016). Saha and Ali (2017) analyzed the role of economic development in corruption in the perspective of political and economic freedom.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Similarly, Gupta et al (2000) explained that corruption reduces the level of social spending, fosters education inequality, and lowers secondary schooling. Ben Ali et al (2016) explained that corruption leads to lower government revenue and therefore lowers expenditures on health and education which decreases human resource development. Inequality also negatively affects the human resource development.…”

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confidence: 99%