Do energy security and environmental quality contribute to renewable energy? The role of trade openness and energy use in North African countries

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dalia M. Ibrahiem ◽  
Shaimaa A. Hanafy
Keyword(s):  
Renewable Energy ◽  
Environmental Quality ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Energy Use ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
North African Countries

Constructing Impossible Uprisings

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Frédéric Volpi
Keyword(s):  
Local Level ◽  
Unintended Consequences ◽  
Political Life ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Unexpected Events ◽  
Causal Processes ◽  
The Face ◽  
North African Countries

This chapter introduces the ‘eventful sociology’ that characterizes the emergence of protest episodes in the four North African countries. Events are non-routine sequences of actions that reshape the routine forms of governance (and opposition) structuring everyday social and political life. Transformative events initiate a transformation of behaviors that is both strategic and reactive, and that reshapes social and political life first at the local level. This chapter qualifies the emergence of new causal processes and how they interact with preexisting practices of governance. The narrative places side by side the views and strategies of different pro- and anti-regime actors in the face of unexpected events and their consequences. The chapter outlines how sequences of events produced new practices, arenas and actors of contestations, often as unintended consequences of interactions. This event-centric account of protest episodes highlights the transformative role of protest in the construction of newly effective forms of political behaviors.

Peritoneal Dialysis in Africa

2010 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hasan Abu-Aisha ◽  
Sarra Elamin
Keyword(s):  
Peritoneal Dialysis ◽  
South African ◽  
Rural Setting ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Dialysis Treatment ◽  
Improved Sanitation ◽  
North African Countries ◽  
Living Circumstances

BackgroundAfrica is the world's second-largest and second most populous continent. It is also the poorest and most underdeveloped continent. Struggling to provide the essential health interventions for its occupants, the majority of African countries cannot regard renal replacement therapy a health priority.ReviewIn 2007, Africa's dialysis population constituted only 4.5% of the world's dialysis population, with a prevalence of 74 per million population (pmp), compared to a global average of 250 pmp. In almost half the African countries, no dialysis patients are reported. The prevalence of peritoneal dialysis (PD) was 2.2 pmp, compared to a global prevalence of 27 pmp, with the bulk of African PD patients (85%) residing in South Africa. In North African countries, which serve 93% of the African dialysis population, the contribution of PD to dialysis is only 0% – 3%. Cost is a major factor affecting the provision of dialysis treatment and many countries are forced to ration dialysis therapy. Rural setting, difficult transportation, low electrification rates, limited access to improved sanitation and improved water sources, unsuitable living circumstances, and the limited number of nephrologists are obstacles to the provision of PD in many countries.ConclusionThe potential for successful regular PD programs in tropical countries has now been well established. Cost is a major prohibitive factor but the role of domestic manufacture in facilitating widespread use of PD is evidenced by the South African example. Education and training are direly needed and these are areas where international societies can be of great help.

scholarly journals Does the Arab spring wave affect outward foreign direct investment (FDI)? Empirical evidence from the Mideast and North Africa

2019 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 411-430
Author(s):  
Aymen Hraiba ◽  
Mehmed Ganić ◽  
Azra Branković
Keyword(s):  
United Arab Emirates ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Arab Spring ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
The North ◽  
North African Countries ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Impact

The paper aims to empirically explore the impact of the Arabic Spring on the outflow of FDI in twelve selected countries in the North Africa region (Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco, Libya, Egypt and Mauritania) and the Mideast region (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Lebanon, Jordan and the United Arab Emirates). The paper employs a panel data approach to exploit the time series nature of the relationship between FDI Outwards and its determinants (the market size, trade openness, government effectiveness, inflation and three dummy variables related to the Arab Spring) between 2000 and 2016. The findings revealed that the impact of the Arab Spring estimator is negatively correlated with FDI Outflows in the countries that witnessed the Arab Spring. It implies that conflicts and instability negatively affect FDI outflows. The findings of this study reveal that countries that have been affected by the Arab Spring directly (the North Africa region) experienced a greater decline of FDI outflows than countries that have been indirectly affected (the Mideast region). When the sample is restricted to North Africa it is shown that the FDI outflows may be influenced by the post Arab Spring effect, while there is no such statistically significant effect in the Mideast region. Thus, the study finds that FDI outflows in the North African countries are more determined by the effects of Arabic Spring countries than in the Mideastern countries.

scholarly journals What is the role of Financial Development and Energy Consumption on Economic Growth?

2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-149
Author(s):  
Doaa Mohamed Salman ◽  
Eyad Atya
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Energy Consumption ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Applied Model ◽  
North African Countries ◽  
Relationship Of

This paper aims to test the validity of the causality between financial development and economic growth on energy consumption in three of North African countries. The study employs error coreection model and Granger causaility test to analyza a dataset for three North African countries covering a period from 1980 to 2010. The applied model is based on demand function for energy to assess the existing of causal relationship of energy with financial development, and economic growth, in Algeria, Egypt, and Tunisia. Empirical results provide a positive significant relating financial development and energy consumption in Algeria, and Tunisia. On the other hand, Egypt’s results show a negative significant relationship relating energy consumption and financial development. The paper is valuable to policy makers in North African countries in their pursuit for achieving economic growth as it clarifies the urge for the financial development reforms to stimulate investment and growth.

scholarly journals Veil of Shame: Role of Women in the Contemporary Fiction of North Africa and the Arab World

1970 ◽  
pp. 3-5
Author(s):  
Evelyne Accad
Keyword(s):  
Arab World ◽  
Arab Countries ◽  
Contemporary Fiction ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
French And English ◽  
Arabic Fiction ◽  
North African Countries ◽  
Modern Arabic

This recent study (1976) attempts to analyse, by means of exposition and comparison, the image of woman in modern Arabic fiction. It is an ambitious project, because the author tries to cover in her study the Arabic and non-Arabic (French and English) fiction of North African countries which she calls "The Maghreb" as well as that of the other Arab countries: Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, which she calls "The Mashreq."

scholarly journals Does Financial Development Affect the Economic Growth Gains from Trade Openness?

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 666-682
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Trade Openness ◽  
Generalized Method Of Moments ◽  
Dynamic Panel Data ◽  
North African ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
North African Countries ◽  
Sustainable Economic Growth

This article examines the relationship between trade openness, financial development and economic growth on a panel of four North African countries (Tunisia, Morocco, Algeria and Egypt), over a 5-year period from 1998 to 2017. Using dynamic panel data model estimated by means of the Generalized Method of Moments (GMM), we found that trade openness is positively related to economic growth. We also found that trade openness appears to be working as a complement to financial development and, moreover, that the effect of trade openness is more pronounced in the presence of the financial development variable. The findings suggest that trade openness and financial development are important elements in determining economic growth in these countries. Therefore, the policy-makers should continue to patronize the development of their financial sector and to allow more trade openness in order to achieve a high and sustainable economic growth.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document