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Financial markets and institutions in the Arab economy / Nidal Rashid Sabri.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sabri, Nid.al Rashid, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Financial institutions--Arab countries.
- Financial institutions.
- Globalization--Arab countries.
- Globalization.
- Arab countries--Economic conditions.
- Arab countries.
- Arab countries--Economic policy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 176 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Nova Science Publishers, [2008]
- Summary:
- This book aims to trace and point out the recent developments occurred in the Arab Economy in the last two decades, including trends toward integration, liberalization, and globalization. This book indicates the most recent changes in the Arab Financial Institutions including banks, insurance companies, pension funds and other financial institutions. There is also the discussion of issues in market stability and efficiency in the light of the new Arab environment of Stock Trading. This book is a comprehensive text covering the Arab Financial Sector.
- Contents:
- Fundamentals
- Introduction
- Arab political unity
- Arab economic unity
- Arab human development
- Moving towards privatization
- The significant role of oil production
- Conclusion
- Major features of Arab economy
- It is a service economy
- Volatility of government revenues
- Insignificance of tax revenues
- High unemployment rates
- Increased burden of government's debt
- Surplus current account
- Significance of workers' remittances
- Arab business environment
- Business culture in the Arab economy
- Not ease of doing business
- Modest competitiveness environment
- Low transparency
- Average credit rating
- Low ranking of good government
- Modest appeal to foreign investment
- Arab financial institutions
- Currency systems in Arab economy
- Arab central banks
- Commercial banks
- Arab development funds
- Arab insurance companies
- Islamic finance and institutions
- Other financial institutions
- Arab financial markets
- Emergence of Arab stock markets
- Major merits of Arab stock markets
- Arab bond markets
- Globalization and Arab stock markets
- Performance of Arab stock markets
- Role of stock markets in the Arab economy
- Stability of Arab stock markets
- Epilogue
- Insight looks to the Arab economy
- Insight looks to the Arab financial sector
- Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [155]-163) and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-5361-8839-5
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