Abdelaziz Testas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1448785 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Abdelaziz Testas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Abdelaziz |
| FAMILY NAME | Testas |
| SIGNATURE | TESTAS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nanjing University of Finance and Economics |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 41 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Towards an alternative industrial and trade profile for Algeria
This article examines the origins of Algeria's state-led developmental model and assesses its economic performance. It examines past development efforts since 1962, and analyses the present context of the Algerian economy. The article provides an alternative development paradigm for Algeria based on the developmental state perspective, concluding that strategic industrial policy needs to come to the centre stage, where it belongs, if sustained lo…
Assessing Algeria's growth competitiveness
This article assesses Algeria's growth competitiveness in relation to Maghrib and non-Maghrib countries. The article uses the pillars of growth competitiveness model. According to this, growth competitiveness rests on three pillars: macroeconomic environment, public institutions, and technological progress. We operationalise this model by applying a statistical cluster procedure to data for 101 countries for 2003. The results indicate that Algeri…
The economic costs of transition to democracy in the Maghrib
This article shows that abandoning the current political system in Algeria and Tunisia is likely to be economically costly. These costs are estimated in terms of output per worker – a customary measure of labour productivity. The results – using an endogenous growth model – indicate that Algeria would have lost more than 20 per cent of its labour productivity during the Boumediènne–Benjedid period had it had the same level of democracy as the Uni…
Economic and political explanations of Algeria's human rights violations
This article examines the impact of economic and political variables, namely economic development, democratisation and civil violence, on the extent to which the Algerian government has violated human rights in the post-independence era. The emerging evidence is such that reversal in the country's economic fortunes since the 1986 world oil price collapse, political liberalisation in the second half of the 1980s and civil violence throughout the 1…
Unemployment in algeria
This article examines the main sources of unemployment in Algeria. It attributes the increase in the country's unemployment rate to a sharp decline in domestic consumption following the 1986 world oil price collapse, and the industrial restructuring policy put into effect in 1994. The article also shows that the official statistics may not reflect the true situation in Algeria and proposes speeding up the process of economic integration with Euro…
The United States' approach to Algeria's civil conflict
The United States' approach to Algeria's civil conflict has been based on the stringent assumption that a choice must be made between a secular government that is prowestern (although corrupt and repressive) and an Islamist regime that is anti-western (although equally repressive if allowed to govern). The article shows that this approach not only works to sustain authoritarianism in Algeria and reinforce a vicious cycle of poverry and civil viol…
Determinants of Terrorism in the Muslim World
This article tries to quantify empirically the factors behind terrorism in 37 Muslim countries. In the article’s most complete model, regressors include education attainment, political repression, income (GDP per capita), and a dummy for civil wars. We find education to be a positive determinant of terrorism— i.e., higher education levels give rise to more transnational terrorism in sample countries, low and high repression are a positive determi…
Models of Cultural Exclusion and Civilizational Clashes
The main aim of this article is to examine the theoretical foundations and practical implications of models of cultural exclusion and civilizational clashes. To achieve this, a comparison is particularly made between Samuel Huntington's thesis of civilizational clashes and Kalim Siddiqui's error-correction model. The main findings indicate that the two models are based on cultural superiority as a claim with the dangerous implication of a world c…
Foreign direct investment, capital accumulation and economic growth in the Maghrib
This article uses an empirical growth model to test for the hypotheses that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is crucial to Maghrib long‐term economic survival, and that the magnitude of the impact of this investment depends on its interaction with the stock of human capital available to the region. Using data on capital accumulation and economic growth for the period 1972–96 for three AMU (Arab Maghrib Union) countries, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisi…
Algeria's Economic Decline, Civil Conflict and the Implications for European Policy
The Roots of Algeria's Religious and Ethnic Violence
Although the existing literature on Algeria's civil conflict recognizes the role of religious and ethnic violence in the crisis, it does not sufficiently explain the various reasons behind it. The main aim of this article is to fill in this gap to some extent by examining the main factors determining the emergence of armed religious and ethnic groups in this country. The basic conclusion to emerge from the analysis is that, although such factors …
Political Repression, Democratization and Civil Conflict in Post-Independence Algeria
This article applies the inverted U-shape theory to Algeria's experience with political repression, democratization and civil conflict. It aims to provide insights into Algeria that other theoretical approaches, such as the clash of civilization, do not. The main findings point to the central role of economic dissatisfaction in promoting political change (democratization) as well as political instability (armed conflict
Maghrib-EU integration and the world economy
This article estimates empirically the economic costs of Maghrib‐EU economic integration to the world economy. The estimates from the viewpoint of a single member country, Algeria, show that membership in the Arab Maghrib Union (AMU) alone does detract from the commitment to global economic integration. It is recommended that integration with the EU is a way to solve this problem and reduce the negative welfare effects of Algeria‐AMU integration …
The advantages of an intra-Maghrib free trade area
This article uses an economic growth model to estimate the static and dynamic output and welfare effects of the 1989 North Africa Arab Maghrib Union (AMU). The estimates as seen from the perspective of one single member country, Algeria, indicate that whilst the existence of such effects can be demonstrated, these are likely to be very small. It is therefore concluded that whilst the smallness of the AMU integration effects does not necessarily m…
The initiating and magnifying factors in Algeria's civil conflict
This article provides a broader vision of Algeria's civil conflict. This is done by exploring the possibility that economic factors may have been the launching pad for the crisis. This idea runs counter to the conventional wisdom that religious, ethnic and political factors are to blame for the conflict. The article argues that there is an urgent need to formulate a new thesis that puts the economy at the centre of an understanding of the crisis …
Maghreb-EU Migration
The most common approach to dealing with migration flows from the Maghreb to the European Union (UN) has been strict border checks. This approach, as shown by this study, does not take into account the developmental needs of the sending countries. Maghreb politicians may, as a result, find it less attractive to co-operate with their EU partners as long as they see migration as a substitute for economic development efforts. Such a view is particul…
The Economic Causes of Algeria's Political Violence
The contribution of EU investment to Tunisia's economic development
This article examines two main effects of EU investment in Tunisia: higher levels of investment and economic activity. The main conclusion to emerge from the analysis is that these dynamic impacts explain rapid rates of economic growth experienced by the country for the post‐investment liberalisation period and can serve as a rationale for further economic integration with the EU
The dynamic impact of tariff liberalisation between the European and Maghreb Unions
This article estimates the dynamic effects of the free trade area between the European Union (EU) and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), which is set to be completed by the year 2010. The application of a balance of payments Constrained Growth Model to annual data on Algerian imports quantifies significant growth effects. In the long run, the country's GDP growth rate is estimated to be almost seven times higher under free trade
Determinants of Terrorism in the Muslim World
This article tries to quantify empirically the factors behind terrorism in 37 Muslim countries. In the article’s most complete model, regressors include education attainment, political repression, income (GDP per capita), and a dummy for civil wars. We find education to be a positive determinant of terrorism— i.e., higher education levels give rise to more transnational terrorism in sample countries, low and high repression are a positive determi…
The Roots of Algeria's Religious and Ethnic Violence
Although the existing literature on Algeria's civil conflict recognizes the role of religious and ethnic violence in the crisis, it does not sufficiently explain the various reasons behind it. The main aim of this article is to fill in this gap to some extent by examining the main factors determining the emergence of armed religious and ethnic groups in this country. The basic conclusion to emerge from the analysis is that, although such factors …
Political Repression, Democratization and Civil Conflict in Post-Independence Algeria
This article applies the inverted U-shape theory to Algeria's experience with political repression, democratization and civil conflict. It aims to provide insights into Algeria that other theoretical approaches, such as the clash of civilization, do not. The main findings point to the central role of economic dissatisfaction in promoting political change (democratization) as well as political instability (armed conflict
Unemployment in algeria
This article examines the main sources of unemployment in Algeria. It attributes the increase in the country's unemployment rate to a sharp decline in domestic consumption following the 1986 world oil price collapse, and the industrial restructuring policy put into effect in 1994. The article also shows that the official statistics may not reflect the true situation in Algeria and proposes speeding up the process of economic integration with Euro…
Models of Cultural Exclusion and Civilizational Clashes
The main aim of this article is to examine the theoretical foundations and practical implications of models of cultural exclusion and civilizational clashes. To achieve this, a comparison is particularly made between Samuel Huntington's thesis of civilizational clashes and Kalim Siddiqui's error-correction model. The main findings indicate that the two models are based on cultural superiority as a claim with the dangerous implication of a world c…
The dynamic impact of tariff liberalisation between the European and Maghreb Unions
This article estimates the dynamic effects of the free trade area between the European Union (EU) and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), which is set to be completed by the year 2010. The application of a balance of payments Constrained Growth Model to annual data on Algerian imports quantifies significant growth effects. In the long run, the country's GDP growth rate is estimated to be almost seven times higher under free trade
Assessing Algeria's growth competitiveness
This article assesses Algeria's growth competitiveness in relation to Maghrib and non-Maghrib countries. The article uses the pillars of growth competitiveness model. According to this, growth competitiveness rests on three pillars: macroeconomic environment, public institutions, and technological progress. We operationalise this model by applying a statistical cluster procedure to data for 101 countries for 2003. The results indicate that Algeri…
Economic and political explanations of Algeria's human rights violations
This article examines the impact of economic and political variables, namely economic development, democratisation and civil violence, on the extent to which the Algerian government has violated human rights in the post-independence era. The emerging evidence is such that reversal in the country's economic fortunes since the 1986 world oil price collapse, political liberalisation in the second half of the 1980s and civil violence throughout the 1…
The advantages of an intra-Maghrib free trade area
This article uses an economic growth model to estimate the static and dynamic output and welfare effects of the 1989 North Africa Arab Maghrib Union (AMU). The estimates as seen from the perspective of one single member country, Algeria, indicate that whilst the existence of such effects can be demonstrated, these are likely to be very small. It is therefore concluded that whilst the smallness of the AMU integration effects does not necessarily m…
The initiating and magnifying factors in Algeria's civil conflict
This article provides a broader vision of Algeria's civil conflict. This is done by exploring the possibility that economic factors may have been the launching pad for the crisis. This idea runs counter to the conventional wisdom that religious, ethnic and political factors are to blame for the conflict. The article argues that there is an urgent need to formulate a new thesis that puts the economy at the centre of an understanding of the crisis …
Maghreb-EU Migration
The most common approach to dealing with migration flows from the Maghreb to the European Union (UN) has been strict border checks. This approach, as shown by this study, does not take into account the developmental needs of the sending countries. Maghreb politicians may, as a result, find it less attractive to co-operate with their EU partners as long as they see migration as a substitute for economic development efforts. Such a view is particul…
The Economic Causes of Algeria's Political Violence
The dynamic impact of tariff liberalisation between the European and Maghreb Unions
This article estimates the dynamic effects of the free trade area between the European Union (EU) and the Arab Maghreb Union (AMU), which is set to be completed by the year 2010. The application of a balance of payments Constrained Growth Model to annual data on Algerian imports quantifies significant growth effects. In the long run, the country's GDP growth rate is estimated to be almost seven times higher under free trade
The contribution of EU investment to Tunisia's economic development
This article examines two main effects of EU investment in Tunisia: higher levels of investment and economic activity. The main conclusion to emerge from the analysis is that these dynamic impacts explain rapid rates of economic growth experienced by the country for the post‐investment liberalisation period and can serve as a rationale for further economic integration with the EU
The initiating and magnifying factors in Algeria's civil conflict
This article provides a broader vision of Algeria's civil conflict. This is done by exploring the possibility that economic factors may have been the launching pad for the crisis. This idea runs counter to the conventional wisdom that religious, ethnic and political factors are to blame for the conflict. The article argues that there is an urgent need to formulate a new thesis that puts the economy at the centre of an understanding of the crisis …
Maghreb-EU Migration
The most common approach to dealing with migration flows from the Maghreb to the European Union (UN) has been strict border checks. This approach, as shown by this study, does not take into account the developmental needs of the sending countries. Maghreb politicians may, as a result, find it less attractive to co-operate with their EU partners as long as they see migration as a substitute for economic development efforts. Such a view is particul…
The Economic Causes of Algeria's Political Violence
Algeria's Economic Decline, Civil Conflict and the Implications for European Policy
The Roots of Algeria's Religious and Ethnic Violence
Although the existing literature on Algeria's civil conflict recognizes the role of religious and ethnic violence in the crisis, it does not sufficiently explain the various reasons behind it. The main aim of this article is to fill in this gap to some extent by examining the main factors determining the emergence of armed religious and ethnic groups in this country. The basic conclusion to emerge from the analysis is that, although such factors …
Political Repression, Democratization and Civil Conflict in Post-Independence Algeria
This article applies the inverted U-shape theory to Algeria's experience with political repression, democratization and civil conflict. It aims to provide insights into Algeria that other theoretical approaches, such as the clash of civilization, do not. The main findings point to the central role of economic dissatisfaction in promoting political change (democratization) as well as political instability (armed conflict
Maghrib-EU integration and the world economy
This article estimates empirically the economic costs of Maghrib‐EU economic integration to the world economy. The estimates from the viewpoint of a single member country, Algeria, show that membership in the Arab Maghrib Union (AMU) alone does detract from the commitment to global economic integration. It is recommended that integration with the EU is a way to solve this problem and reduce the negative welfare effects of Algeria‐AMU integration …
The advantages of an intra-Maghrib free trade area
This article uses an economic growth model to estimate the static and dynamic output and welfare effects of the 1989 North Africa Arab Maghrib Union (AMU). The estimates as seen from the perspective of one single member country, Algeria, indicate that whilst the existence of such effects can be demonstrated, these are likely to be very small. It is therefore concluded that whilst the smallness of the AMU integration effects does not necessarily m…
Models of Cultural Exclusion and Civilizational Clashes
The main aim of this article is to examine the theoretical foundations and practical implications of models of cultural exclusion and civilizational clashes. To achieve this, a comparison is particularly made between Samuel Huntington's thesis of civilizational clashes and Kalim Siddiqui's error-correction model. The main findings indicate that the two models are based on cultural superiority as a claim with the dangerous implication of a world c…
Foreign direct investment, capital accumulation and economic growth in the Maghrib
This article uses an empirical growth model to test for the hypotheses that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is crucial to Maghrib long‐term economic survival, and that the magnitude of the impact of this investment depends on its interaction with the stock of human capital available to the region. Using data on capital accumulation and economic growth for the period 1972–96 for three AMU (Arab Maghrib Union) countries, Algeria, Morocco and Tunisi…
Economic and political explanations of Algeria's human rights violations
This article examines the impact of economic and political variables, namely economic development, democratisation and civil violence, on the extent to which the Algerian government has violated human rights in the post-independence era. The emerging evidence is such that reversal in the country's economic fortunes since the 1986 world oil price collapse, political liberalisation in the second half of the 1980s and civil violence throughout the 1…
Unemployment in algeria
This article examines the main sources of unemployment in Algeria. It attributes the increase in the country's unemployment rate to a sharp decline in domestic consumption following the 1986 world oil price collapse, and the industrial restructuring policy put into effect in 1994. The article also shows that the official statistics may not reflect the true situation in Algeria and proposes speeding up the process of economic integration with Euro…
The United States' approach to Algeria's civil conflict
The United States' approach to Algeria's civil conflict has been based on the stringent assumption that a choice must be made between a secular government that is prowestern (although corrupt and repressive) and an Islamist regime that is anti-western (although equally repressive if allowed to govern). The article shows that this approach not only works to sustain authoritarianism in Algeria and reinforce a vicious cycle of poverry and civil viol…
Determinants of Terrorism in the Muslim World
This article tries to quantify empirically the factors behind terrorism in 37 Muslim countries. In the article’s most complete model, regressors include education attainment, political repression, income (GDP per capita), and a dummy for civil wars. We find education to be a positive determinant of terrorism— i.e., higher education levels give rise to more transnational terrorism in sample countries, low and high repression are a positive determi…
The economic costs of transition to democracy in the Maghrib
This article shows that abandoning the current political system in Algeria and Tunisia is likely to be economically costly. These costs are estimated in terms of output per worker – a customary measure of labour productivity. The results – using an endogenous growth model – indicate that Algeria would have lost more than 20 per cent of its labour productivity during the Boumediènne–Benjedid period had it had the same level of democracy as the Uni…
Assessing Algeria's growth competitiveness
This article assesses Algeria's growth competitiveness in relation to Maghrib and non-Maghrib countries. The article uses the pillars of growth competitiveness model. According to this, growth competitiveness rests on three pillars: macroeconomic environment, public institutions, and technological progress. We operationalise this model by applying a statistical cluster procedure to data for 101 countries for 2003. The results indicate that Algeri…
Towards an alternative industrial and trade profile for Algeria
This article examines the origins of Algeria's state-led developmental model and assesses its economic performance. It examines past development efforts since 1962, and analyses the present context of the Algerian economy. The article provides an alternative development paradigm for Algeria based on the developmental state perspective, concluding that strategic industrial policy needs to come to the centre stage, where it belongs, if sustained lo…
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