Review of Economics and Political Science: Volume 8 Issue 5 , Open Access

Government expenditure impacts on financial development: Do population age structures moderations matter?

Saganga Mussa Kapaya

This study examined the roles of public spending and population moderating characteristic structure of selected African economies on bank-based financial development through…

Oil price fluctuations and economic growth: the case of MENA countries

Mamdouh Abdelmoula Mohamed Abdelsalam

This paper aims to explore the extreme effect of crude oil price fluctuations and its volatility on the economic growth of Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. It also…

Multi-faceted Eurasianism: a comparison in practice

Veronika Torosyan

After the collapse of the USSR, Eurasian integration projects, proposed by Russia, Kazakhstan and Turkey, began to develop in the post-Soviet space. Hence, there is growing…

Small states and strategic hedging: the United Arab Emirates’ policy towards Iran

Ayman El-Dessouki, Ola Rafik Mansour

The purpose of this paper is to unveil the main changes in the UAE’s policy towards Iran since its foundation in 1971. The UAE favored strategic hedging, extending its commercial…