Many are also major exporters of fossil fuels which add significantly to global emissions. The EY MENA CCRI EY has developed the Climate Change Readiness Index (CCRI) for the MENA region to improve understanding of where countries in the region are, in their efforts to...
Theroleofforeignbanksinimpactingthebehaviorofdomesticbankshasbeenarelativelyunaddressedtopicintheliterature.Employingbank-wisedataonMENAcountriesduring2000-2012,thepurposeofthispaperistoexaminehowthebehaviorofforeignbanksimpactdomesticbankperformance.Forthispurpose,theauthorsfocusonnotonlytheirprofitabilityandstability,but...
Executive summary Historically, women in the Middle East and North Africa have been disadvantaged in access and controlling land. In 1999, it was estimated that women's ownership rates in the MENA region were among the lowest in the world at just 5 percent (FAO, 1999). Gender-unequal asset...
Many parents today will probably have received little or no sex education themselves. They may have only a vague sense of what they should teach their children and an even vaguer sense of how to go about it. Teenagers today, however, who can ask Google anything, and will have sex education...
World Cities Cities in Japan that are also found in other countries in the worldList of countries and how many city names are also found outside the country Afghanistan (7384)Albania (1888)Algeria (1057)America (12379)Andorra (18)Angola (3326)Anguilla (12)Antigua and Barbuda (70)Argentina ...
Middle East North Africa (MENA) CountriesThe risk perceived by investors is crucial in the decision to invest, in particular when it concerns a foreign country. The investment risk associated is a multi-faceted element given that it reflects many aspects that are relevant to (foreign) investors,...
This region's combination of low breadth scores and low intra-regional integration reflects a pattern where many countries connect primarily with specific countries outside of the region. Countries in the northern part of this region, especially those in Central America and the Caribbean, tend to ...
Niger borders seven countries, and one of them is Nigeria, the biggest economy in Africa. Ghali said the large number of Niger refugees that may emerge from the conflict will put tremendous pressure on Niger's neighbors. Many refugee groups would become the recruitment targets of extremist organi...
Since regulations on capital, payments, foreign exchange, digital assets and lending vary widely between countries, specialist knowledge of local markets and regulation is necessary in this endeavour.For some time, Asia has been attracting interest from European and US fintech players, primarily ...
As far as we know, there are no previous studies on the GCC and MENA countries that have examined this issue in a frequency framework from an asymmetric perspective. Secondly, our research differs from previous studies as we not only examine the impact of uncertainty on Saudi Arabia’s ...