TY  - BOOK
AU  - Igbal, Zubair
ED  - International Monetary Fund.
TI  - Macroeconomic issues and policies in the Middle East and North Africa
SN  - 1589060415 (alk. paper)
AV  - HC415.15 .M33 2001
U1  - 339.0956 21
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Washington, DC
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 1979-
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - Africa, North
KW  - Africa, NOrth
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Machine generated contents note: Preface -- Horst Kohlervii -- Acknowledgmentsix -- 1. Economic Challenges in the Middle East and North -- Africa-An Overview -- Zubair IqbalI -- Part I. Selected Macroeconomic and Financial Issues -- 2. Demographic Transition in the Middle East: Implications -- for Growth, Employment, and Housing -- Pierre Dhonte, Rina Bhattacharya, and Tarik Yousef19 -- 3. Determinants of Inflation in the Islamic Republic of Iran- -- A Macroeconomic Analysis -- Olin Liu and Olumuyiwa S. Adedeji41 -- 4. Financial Liberalization in Arab Countries -- Karim Nashashibi, Mohamad Elhage, and Annalisa Fedelino 62 -- 5. Monetary Operations and Government Debt Management -- Under Islamic Banking -- V. Sundararajan, David Marston, and Ghiath Shabsigh89 -- Addendum. Recent Developments in Islamic Banking -- Ghiath Shabsigh117 -- 6. Fiscal Sustainability with Nonrenewable Resources -- N igelChak125 -- Part II. External Policies -- 7. External Stability Under Alternative Nominal Exchange -- Rate Anchors: An Application to the Gulf Cooperation -- Council Countries -- S. Nuri Erba,, Zubair lqbal, and Chera L. Sayers161
N2  - The   book's overall theme is that self- sustaining and faster growth can be achieved through comprehensive structural reforms and closer collaboration between the region's policymakers and the international community
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001024837.html
ER  -