عنوان

An exploration of factors influencing socio-economic development in Arab countries

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TL49173

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

An exploration of factors influencing socio-economic development in Arab countries

General Material Designation

[Thesis]

First Statement of Responsibility

Ahmed Loukili

Subsequent Statement of Responsibility

McGinty, Patrick

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Western Illinois University

Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.

2016

Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item

127

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Committee members: Mannion, Elgin; Sandage, Diane

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Place of publication: United States, Ann Arbor; ISBN=978-1-369-53076-6

Dissertation or thesis details and type of degree

M.A.

Discipline of degree

Sociology

Body granting the degree

Western Illinois University

Text preceding or following the note

2016

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This thesis explores the status of socio-economic development in the Arab region. The region lags behind other developed nations in many important indicators such as literacy, life expectancy, years of schooling, and importantly, gender equity. This thesis explores the problems that face Arab countries such as political and economic uncertainty and instability, employment rate, quality of life, and life expectancy. Selected indicators have been grouped into three dimensions: human development, gender equity and quality of life. Using identifiable Arab countries as the unit of analysis (N = 22) this research uses descriptive statistics and OLS multiple regression to provide an analysis of secondary data in the pursuit of three hypotheses regarding (1) human development, (2) gender equity, and (3) quality of life for all the 22 Arab countries. GDP was statistically significant for all my outcome variables except urbanization. Fourteen Arab countries had a GDP below one hundred billion, thus the lack of prosperity clearly effected human development such as life expectancy and gender equity such as sex ratio, as well as educational attainment, and quality of life such as the unemployment rate. Type of government was statistically significant for fertility and literacy, indicating that the more stable monarchies in Arab region do better in term of lowering fertility and increasing literacy rates.

Sociology

Subject Term

Social sciences;Arab countries;Development;Gender equity;Human development;Socio-economics

Xu, Yunbo

McGinty, Patrick

Subdivision

Sociology

Western Illinois University

Call Number

1860899105; 10250093

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[Thesis]

276903

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