Rabah Arezki
Biographic Data
| ID | 5736768 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rabah Arezki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rabah |
| FAMILY NAME | Arezki |
| SIGNATURE | AREZKI R |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Monetary Fund |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4214-1306 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 24 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The (Hidden) Samaritan Contest
An international plan for sustainable development
An International Plan for Sustainable Development
International cooperation on climate and taxation remains inadequate to deliver decarbonization, reduce poverty, and finance sustainable development at the required scale. We propose a Sustainable Union among willing countries, combining carbon pricing, new taxes on wealth, polluting fuels, financial transactions, and corporate income, with international revenue-sharing and conditional cooperation mechanisms. Most revenues would remain with parti…
Natural disasters and foreign aid allocation: How much, how quickly, and to whom
Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports
Countries with greater commodity export intensity have more concentrated markets for imported goods. Import market concentration is associated with higher domestic prices, suggesting that markups due to greater concentration outweigh any potential cost efficiency. Tariffs, non-tariff measures, and tariff evasion are mechanisms that concentrate import markets. These results suggest a novel channel for the resource curse stemming from the monopoliz…
A shared vision towards global climate justice
Contagious protests
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity
Reform Chatter and Democracy
This paper explores the dynamics of \n media chatter about economic reforms using text analysis \n from about a billion newspaper articles in 28 languages. The \n paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases \n during economic downturns. This increase is more significant \n in democracies. Using instrumental variable techniques, the \n analysis finds the relationship to be causal. The paper also \n documents that reform chatter is f…
Developing public-private partnership initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa: From public debt to maximizing finance for development
This paper argues for a novel approach to financing infrastructure needs in Arab countries. It first describes the context of rising public debt in the region, contrasting it with the vast infrastructure needs. It then discusses the challenges in meeting these needs with traditional financing. The paper then makes the case for maximizing finance for development by using public-private partnerships and presents a few successful examples in Arab co…
Trading Together: Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era
Part I of this report discusses the short- and medium-term growth prospects for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The region is expected to grow at a subdued rate of 0.6 percent in 2019, rising to 2.6 percent in 2020 and 2.9 percent in 2021. The growth forecast for 2019 is revised down by 0.8 percentage points from the April 2019 projection. MENA's economic outlook is subject to substantial downside risks-most notably, intensi…
Reaching New Heights: Promoting Fair Competition in the Middle East and North Africa
Part I of this report discusses the short- and medium-term growth prospects for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The region is expected to grow at a subdued rate of 0.6 percent in 2019, rising to 2.6 percent in 2020 and 2.9 percent in 2021. The growth forecast for 2019 is revised down by 0.8 percentage points from the April 2019 projection. MENA’s economic outlook is subject to substantial downside risks—most notably, intensi…
The shifting natural wealth of nations: The role of market orientation
Contagion sur le marché des obligations municipales américaines: Une leçon pour l’Europe
Cet article analyse les mécanismes de contagion au sein des marchés obligataires des États fédérés américains, mais aussi la transmission des chocs aux titres du Trésor américain. À partir du test de contagion de Forbes et Rigobon [2002], en utilisant des données journalières sur les rendements obligataires sur la période 2005-2011, deux résultats ont été obtenus. En premier lieu, nous observons des effets de contagion négatifs et significatifs e…
Effects of International Food Price Shocks on Political Institutions in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from an International Food Net-Export Price Index
What Drives the Global “Land Rush”
We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the "land rush" in the wake of the 2007–8 boom in agricultural commodity prices, and we study the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investment. The use of data on bilateral investment relationships to estimate gravity models of transnational land-intensive investments confirms the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. However, this fin…
Boom–bust cycle, asymmetrical fiscal response and the Dutch disease
Commodity Windfalls, Democracy and External Debt
We examine the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on external debt in a panel of 93 countries during the period 1970–2007. Our main finding is that increases in the international prices of exported commodity goods lead to a significant reduction\nin the level of external debt in democracies but to no significant reduction in the level of external debt in autocracies. To explain this finding, we show that in autoc…
What Drives the Global Land Rush
What Drives the Global Land Rush
What drives the global land rush
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as well as indicators of land rights security. Results confirm the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature …
La « course aux terres »: Théorie et déterminants empiriques des acquisitions transfrontalières de terres agricoles
Depuis la flambee des prix agricoles de 2007-2008, les medias se sont fait l'echo d'une course aux terres a l'echelle planetaire selon laquelle des pays importateurs de denrees alimentaires chercheraient a securiser leurs approvisionnements en acquerant de larges quantites de terres cultivables dans des pays en developpement. Au-dela des comportements speculatifs repondant a la fluctuation des prix mondiaux les analystes voient dans ce phenomene …
La « course aux terres ». Quelques éclairages empiriques
Commodity Windfalls, Democracy and External Debt
We examine the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on external debt in a panel of 93 countries during the period 1970–2007. Our main finding is that increases in the international prices of exported commodity goods lead to a significant reduction\nin the level of external debt in democracies but to no significant reduction in the level of external debt in autocracies. To explain this finding, we show that in autoc…
Effects of International Food Price Shocks on Political Institutions in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from an International Food Net-Export Price Index
The shifting natural wealth of nations: The role of market orientation
Boom–bust cycle, asymmetrical fiscal response and the Dutch disease
La « course aux terres »: Théorie et déterminants empiriques des acquisitions transfrontalières de terres agricoles
Depuis la flambee des prix agricoles de 2007-2008, les medias se sont fait l'echo d'une course aux terres a l'echelle planetaire selon laquelle des pays importateurs de denrees alimentaires chercheraient a securiser leurs approvisionnements en acquerant de larges quantites de terres cultivables dans des pays en developpement. Au-dela des comportements speculatifs repondant a la fluctuation des prix mondiaux les analystes voient dans ce phenomene …
What Drives the Global Land Rush
What Drives the Global Land Rush
What drives the global land rush
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as well as indicators of land rights security. Results confirm the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. In contrast to the literature …
La « course aux terres »: Théorie et déterminants empiriques des acquisitions transfrontalières de terres agricoles
Depuis la flambee des prix agricoles de 2007-2008, les medias se sont fait l'echo d'une course aux terres a l'echelle planetaire selon laquelle des pays importateurs de denrees alimentaires chercheraient a securiser leurs approvisionnements en acquerant de larges quantites de terres cultivables dans des pays en developpement. Au-dela des comportements speculatifs repondant a la fluctuation des prix mondiaux les analystes voient dans ce phenomene …
La « course aux terres ». Quelques éclairages empiriques
Boom–bust cycle, asymmetrical fiscal response and the Dutch disease
Commodity Windfalls, Democracy and External Debt
We examine the effects that windfalls from international commodity price booms have on external debt in a panel of 93 countries during the period 1970–2007. Our main finding is that increases in the international prices of exported commodity goods lead to a significant reduction\nin the level of external debt in democracies but to no significant reduction in the level of external debt in autocracies. To explain this finding, we show that in autoc…
What Drives the Global “Land Rush”
We review evidence regarding the size and evolution of the "land rush" in the wake of the 2007–8 boom in agricultural commodity prices, and we study the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agricultural investment. The use of data on bilateral investment relationships to estimate gravity models of transnational land-intensive investments confirms the central role of agro-ecological potential as a pull factor. However, this fin…
Effects of International Food Price Shocks on Political Institutions in Low-Income Countries: Evidence from an International Food Net-Export Price Index
Contagion sur le marché des obligations municipales américaines: Une leçon pour l’Europe
Cet article analyse les mécanismes de contagion au sein des marchés obligataires des États fédérés américains, mais aussi la transmission des chocs aux titres du Trésor américain. À partir du test de contagion de Forbes et Rigobon [2002], en utilisant des données journalières sur les rendements obligataires sur la période 2005-2011, deux résultats ont été obtenus. En premier lieu, nous observons des effets de contagion négatifs et significatifs e…
The shifting natural wealth of nations: The role of market orientation
Reaching New Heights: Promoting Fair Competition in the Middle East and North Africa
Part I of this report discusses the short- and medium-term growth prospects for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The region is expected to grow at a subdued rate of 0.6 percent in 2019, rising to 2.6 percent in 2020 and 2.9 percent in 2021. The growth forecast for 2019 is revised down by 0.8 percentage points from the April 2019 projection. MENA’s economic outlook is subject to substantial downside risks—most notably, intensi…
Reform Chatter and Democracy
This paper explores the dynamics of \n media chatter about economic reforms using text analysis \n from about a billion newspaper articles in 28 languages. The \n paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases \n during economic downturns. This increase is more significant \n in democracies. Using instrumental variable techniques, the \n analysis finds the relationship to be causal. The paper also \n documents that reform chatter is f…
Developing public-private partnership initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa: From public debt to maximizing finance for development
This paper argues for a novel approach to financing infrastructure needs in Arab countries. It first describes the context of rising public debt in the region, contrasting it with the vast infrastructure needs. It then discusses the challenges in meeting these needs with traditional financing. The paper then makes the case for maximizing finance for development by using public-private partnerships and presents a few successful examples in Arab co…
Trading Together: Reviving Middle East and North Africa Regional Integration in the Post-Covid Era
Part I of this report discusses the short- and medium-term growth prospects for countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). The region is expected to grow at a subdued rate of 0.6 percent in 2019, rising to 2.6 percent in 2020 and 2.9 percent in 2021. The growth forecast for 2019 is revised down by 0.8 percentage points from the April 2019 projection. MENA's economic outlook is subject to substantial downside risks-most notably, intensi…
Climate finance for Africa requires overcoming bottlenecks in domestic capacity
Contagious protests
Natural Resource Dependence and Monopolized Imports
Countries with greater commodity export intensity have more concentrated markets for imported goods. Import market concentration is associated with higher domestic prices, suggesting that markups due to greater concentration outweigh any potential cost efficiency. Tariffs, non-tariff measures, and tariff evasion are mechanisms that concentrate import markets. These results suggest a novel channel for the resource curse stemming from the monopoliz…
A shared vision towards global climate justice
The (Hidden) Samaritan Contest
An international plan for sustainable development
An International Plan for Sustainable Development
International cooperation on climate and taxation remains inadequate to deliver decarbonization, reduce poverty, and finance sustainable development at the required scale. We propose a Sustainable Union among willing countries, combining carbon pricing, new taxes on wealth, polluting fuels, financial transactions, and corporate income, with international revenue-sharing and conditional cooperation mechanisms. Most revenues would remain with parti…
Natural disasters and foreign aid allocation: How much, how quickly, and to whom
Economics (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Geography (7 works) · Natural Resources and Economic Development (6 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate Change Policy and Economics (4 works) · Developing country (4 works) · Ecology (4 works) · Econometrics (4 works) · Finance (4 works)