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on MENA - Middle East and North Africa |
| By: | Dagher, Leila; tabsh, ghina; sidani, ola; Abi Younes, Oussama |
| Abstract: | The project aims to ensure greater accountability and transparency of humanitarian aid and reconstructions efforts, particularly for those most affected by the Beirut port explosion. It will do so by better equipping local civil society and journalist networks in their roles as watchdogs, by supporting state actors to improve government reforms and manage crisis in transparency, and by equipping citizens to monitor and report corruption, particularly in areas of Beirut most affected by the explosion. Several recent reports and documentaries have questioned the transparency and accountability of international assistance related to the Port of Beirut (PoB) explosion. There are claims that millions of dollars have been misused or wasted to corruption. “Ensuring Accountability in Reconstruction and Reform Efforts in Lebanon (EARREL)” intends to fill this information gap. EARREL is led by the American University of Beirut (AUB) and the Lebanese Transparency Association (LTA) and funded by Transparency International. This report builds on an exhaustive literature review conducted by the team as well as a data collection exercise that included (1) field surveys of 650 aid beneficiaries in the PoB area, and (2) Key Informant Interviews (KIIs) with 50 experts in the field. |
| Keywords: | transparency; international aid; port of beirut explosion; Lebanon |
| JEL: | F35 |
| Date: | 2022 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:pra:mprapa:116532&r=ara |
| By: | Tugba Bozcaga; Asli Cansunar |
| Abstract: | Education is a public service, assumed to be highly valued by citizens, allowing politicians to use it to reward their co-ethnics. However, nation-states have also used education to create loyal citizens, leaving politicians in times of heightened threat of ethnic mobilization. This study investigates whether assimilatory national public investments in ethnic minority areas induce violence. |
| Keywords: | Education, Social mobilization, Assimilation, Insurgency, Ethnic conflict, Turkey |
| Date: | 2023 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2023-50&r=ara |
| By: | zouheir Boussouf (USMBA - laboratoire ERMOT FSJES université sidi mohamed ben abedellah) |
| Abstract: | No one can deny the essential role played by the management system in the quest for the performance of public establishments and in particular universities. Our objective in this article is to explore the perceptions of the actors interviewed on the main dimensions of the management system. of the Moroccan public university. For this, we will analyze the Moroccan university performance management system. Furthermore, we will try to open up questions that have not yet been sufficiently explored by performance management research. Indeed, the particularities of these (complex) organizations, their fields of activity and their management methods pose new questions to the researcher in performance management, which oblige him to wonder about the imperatives of adaptation and institutionalization of managerial logic through the transition from the logic of means to a new logic of results and performance. |
| Abstract: | Nul ne peut nier le rôle primordial que jouer le système du management dans la quête de la performance des établissements publics et en particuliers les universités, notre objectif dans cet article est d'explorer les perceptions des acteurs interviewés sur les principales dimensions du système de management de l'université publique marocaine. Pour cela, nous analyserons le système de management de la performance universitaire marocain. Par ailleurs, nous essaierons d'ouvrir des questions qui n'ont pas encore été suffisamment explorées par la recherche en management de la performance. En effet, les particularités de ces organisations (complexes), leurs domaines d'activité et leurs modes de management posent de nouvelles questions au chercheur en management de la performance, qui l'obligent à s'interroger sur les impératifs d'adaptation et d'institutionnalisation de la logique gestionnaire au travers le passage de la logique du moyen vers une nouvelle logique de résultat et de la performance. |
| Keywords: | management system, university, the LOF, new public management and performance., Système de management, université, la LOF, nouveau management public et performance |
| Date: | 2023–02–23 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:hal:journl:hal-04003810&r=ara |
| By: | Philip Adams; Louise Roos |
| Abstract: | Greenhouse gas emissions in Jordan come primarily from the combustion of refined oil products in transport. Hence, plans to reduce emissions focus primarily on the transport sector. These plans, often detailed from a technological point of view, seldom present reasoned economic measures of likely consequences. This paper provides an assessment of the likely economic costs and benefits for Jordan of two typical schemes to reduce the environmental effects of transport. Both relate to the delivery of passenger services. The first is to encourage the uptake of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) at the expense of Internal Combustion Vehicles (ICVs) and, to a lesser extent, hybrid vehicles. The second is to invest in new public transport infrastructure -- phase 2 of the Bus Rapid Transport system -- assisting to reduce the use of private vehicles principally in urban areas. The analysis is based on scenarios to 2050 constructed using a large model of Jordan's economy, named JorGE. JorGE is calibrated to data for 2020 and has a detailed industrial classification. That classification recognizes electricity produced by several different conventional fossil fuel and renewable technologies and a number of road transport service industries. The road transport industries distinguish passenger from freight services. For passenger services there are separate industries producing public transport services and private transport services. The latter is further disaggregated into services provided by the three different passenger vehicle types -- ICVs, EVs and Hybrids. |
| Keywords: | CGE modelling, electric vehicles (BEV), internal combustion vehicles (ICV), greenhouse gas, public transport |
| JEL: | C68 R41 |
| Date: | 2023–04 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:cop:wpaper:g-339&r=ara |
| By: | D'Silva, Brian; Hassan, Rashid; Hutur, Abdelrahman; Ibrahim, Sami; Abushama, Hala; Siddig, Khalid; Kirui, Oliver K. |
| Abstract: | This note reviews Sudan’s contemporary political landscape and how it affects the viability of much needed investments central to the country’s agricultural transformation. It specifically focuses on livestock and horticulture value chains in Greater Khartoum and natural resource management in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan States. Successive governments have largely neglected the agriculture sector even though it is the largest employment sector in Sudan and contributes about 56 percent to total exports (CBoS, 2020). Moreover, the sector has a high potential for tackling the twin challenges of food insecurity and improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. These two are critical priorities given high food price inflation and restricted access to agricultural inputs exacerbated by the Ukraine war. An enabling political and governance environment is essential for adopting and implementing the policies required for agricultural transformation, especially in fragile states like Sudan. This Political Economy Assessment (PEA) exercise has highlighted that the military and paramilitary structures occupy a large market share of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), private company partnerships, and land leases to foreign companies in the agriculture sector. Thus, this study forms a basis for deeper PEA and an opportunity for the exploration of the role of intermediaries and the rent seeking activities at the subsequent levels of agricultural value chains, and the extent to which they are linked to both formal and informal economic structures. We have highlighted how smallholder farmers are largely disadvantaged given the current distribution of economic rents. |
| Keywords: | REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN, EAST AFRICA, AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA, AFRICA, politics, investments, agricultural transformation, livestock, value chains, natural resource management, employment, exports, food insecurity, livelihoods, smallholder farmers, inflation, policies |
| Date: | 2023 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:sssppn:4&r=ara |
| By: | Maya El Hourani (GREDEG CNRS; Université Côte d'Azur, France) |
| Abstract: | Cet article vise à évaluer l'effet de la capitalisation bancaire et de la qualité institutionnelle sur l'efficience des banques commerciales dans la région. Tout d'abord nous adoptons la méthodologie DEA non-paramétrique (l'analyse d'enveloppement des données – DEA) afin de mesurer l'efficience coût des banques. Ensuite, nous estimons l'effet de la capitalisation bancaire et de la qualité institutionnelle sur l'efficience. En plus, des variables spécifiques à la banque et des variables macroéconomiques, nous analysons l'effet de la propriété des banques et du type des pays sur la performance des banques de la région MENA. L'estimation HT mettent en évidence l'effet négative de la capitalisation bancaire sur l'efficience bancaire. De plus, l'étude affirme l'effet négative de la qualité institutionnelle dans la performance des banques opérante dans la région MENA, surtout pour les banques publiques. Nous confirmons l'hypothèse selon laquelle le comportement des banques dépend largement du type de propriété ce qui est négligé par les régulateurs. |
| Keywords: | Capital bancaire, qualité institutionnelle, efficience bancaire, l'analyse d'enveloppement des données - DEA, région MENA |
| JEL: | G3 G21 G38 D23 D73 |
| Date: | 2022–12 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:gre:wpaper:2022-41&r=ara |
| By: | D'Silva, Brian; Hassan, Rashid; Hutur, Abdelrahman; Ibrahim, Sami; Abushama, Hala; Siddig, Khalid; Kirui, Oliver K. |
| Abstract: | This note reviews Sudan’s contemporary political landscape and how it affects the viability of much needed investments central to the country’s agricultural transformation. It specifically focuses on livestock and horticulture value chains in Greater Khartoum and natural resource management in the Blue Nile and South Kordofan States. Successive governments have largely neglected the agriculture sector even though it is the largest employment sector in Sudan and contributes about 56 percent to total exports (CBoS, 2020). Moreover, the sector has a high potential for tackling the twin challenges of food insecurity and improving the livelihoods of smallholder farmers. These two are critical priorities given high food price inflation and restricted access to agricultural inputs exacerbated by the Ukraine war. An enabling political and governance environment is essential for adopting and implementing the policies required for agricultural transformation, especially in fragile states like Sudan. This Political Economy Assessment (PEA) exercise has highlighted that the military and paramilitary structures occupy a large market share of the State-Owned Enterprises (SOEs), private company partnerships, and land leases to foreign companies in the agriculture sector. Thus, this study forms a basis for deeper PEA and an opportunity for the exploration of the role of intermediaries and the rent seeking activities at the subsequent levels of agricultural value chains, and the extent to which they are linked to both formal and informal economic structures. We have highlighted how smallholder farmers are largely disadvantaged given the current distribution of economic rents. |
| Keywords: | REPUBLIC OF THE SUDAN, EAST AFRICA, AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA, AFRICA, politics, investments, agricultural transformation, livestock, value chains, natural resource management, employment, exports, food insecurity, livelihoods, smallholder farmers, inflation, policies |
| Date: | 2023 |
| URL: | http://d.repec.org/n?u=RePEc:fpr:sssppn:4a&r=ara |