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Harrigan, Jane and El-Said, Hamed (2010) 'The Economic Impact of IMF and World Bank Programs in the Middle East and North Africa: A Case Study of Jordan, Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia, 1983-2004.' Review of Middle East Economics and Finance, 6 (2). pp. 1-25.

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Abstract

This paper examines whether the economic reforms attached to IMF and World Bank policy-based lending in the Middle East and North Africa have stimulated sustained economic growth. In order to investigate this, we chose four countries to study in depth: Jordan, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco. These were chosen as they have been put forward by both the IMF and the World Bank as successful reformers who, for prolonged periods, carried out World Bank and IMF guided economic reform programs. We examine the sources of growth during the reform period in these four countries, looking at intensive versus extensive growth, growth in the tradables sector versus the non-tradables sector and growth caused by the reforms versus growth caused by exogenous factors. We discovered that the reform programs in all four countries were associated with spurts of economic growth, but that, apart from Tunisia, this was not sustained, with intensive growth in the tradables sector stimulated by the reform program.

Item Type: Journal Article
Keywords: IMF, World Bank, stabilization, structural adjustment, Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt
SOAS Departments & Centres: Departments and Subunits > Department of Economics
Legacy Departments > Faculty of Law and Social Sciences > Department of Economics
ISSN: 14753685
Copyright Statement: ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston. This is the published version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
DOI (Digital Object Identifier): https://doi.org/10.2202/1475-3693.1261
Date Deposited: 16 Jul 2012 11:04
URI: https://eprints.soas.ac.uk/id/eprint/13959

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