- Docente: Alessandro Romagnoli
- Credits: 5
- SSD: SECS-P/02
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Ravenna
- Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION, PROTECTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND CULTURAL HERITAGE IN MEDITERRANEAN SEA AND EURASIA (cod. 0888)
Learning outcomes
The learning and to the comprehension of the economic systems ofSouth East Mediterranean are the aims of the course pursued through a detailed analysis of regional economic structure and performance. The student should be able, at the end of the course, to use his basic economic knowledge to study the economies of the different countries, to understand their particular problems, and to evaluate the policies implemented during the last decade to copy with the development process.
Course contents
The capitalist development process: an historical outline
Late comers development
Mediterranean Region boundaries
Arab development policies during last fifty years
Demographic transitions labour markets and migrations
Globalization and economic integration in South East Mediterranean
Beyond Euro-Mediterranean partnership
Readings/Bibliography
- A. Romagnoli (2008): Il contesto socio-tecnologico dell'evoluzione capitalistica, mimeo.
- Dunning J. H. (2006), Towards a new paradigm of development: implications for the determinants of international business, Transnational corporations, vol. 15, n. 1, pp. 174-227.
- Brauch, H. G. (2001): Mediterranean space and boundaries, in Brauch, H. G., Marquina A. (Eds.) The Mediterranean Space and Its Borders: Geography, Politics, Economics and Environment, Madrid, UNISCI, Mosbach AFES-PRESS, pp. 25-58.
- El-Sayed Selim (2001: Trans Mediterranean-Arabic geostrategic linkages and their implications for Mediterranean Security, in Brauch, H. G., Marquina A. (Eds.) The Mediterranean Space and Its Borders: Geography, Politics, Economics and Environment, Madrid, UNISCI, Mosbach AFES-PRESS, pp. 147-166.
- Rivlin P. (2001), Economic policy and performance in the Arab world, Lynne Rienner Publishers, London, Ch.1.
- Richards A. and Waterbury J. (2007), Economy of the Middle East, Westview Press, Ch. 2.
- Youswf Tarik M. (2004), Development, Growth and Policy Reform in the Middle East and North Africa since 1950, Journal of Economic Perspectives, Vol. 18, 3, pp. 91-116.
- Christopher A Pissarides A.C., Véganzonès –Varoudakis M.A., Labor markets and economic growth in the MENA region, in Nugent, Jeffrey B and Pesaran M Hashem, Explaining Growth in the Middle East, Contributions to Economic Analysis 278, Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007, pp. 137-157.
- Mengoni L., Romagnoli A., (2007) Beyond remittances in the Mediterranean: What migration pattern for LED? in A.M. Ferragina Bridging the gap: The role of trade and FDI in the Mediterranean, CNR Napoli, pp. 557-583.
-Nugent J., Yousef T. (2005), Does MENA Defy Gravity? How MENA has Performed in its Intraregional, EU and Other Trade:Implications for EU and Intra-MENA Trade Arrangements, EUI Working Paper RSCAS No. 2005/26
- Mengoni L, Romagnoli A., (2008): The challenge of economic integration in the MENA region: from GAFTA and EU-MFTA to small scale Arab Unions, Economic Change and Restructuring, October.
- Romagnoli A. (2001), Sviluppo economico e "libero scambio" Euro-mediterraneo, in AA. VV.,
Mediterraneo. Economia e sviluppo, Jaca Book, Milano, pp. 345-358.
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