Browsing by Author "Salman Abdou, Doaa M."

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Impact of Women Wage Segregation on Economic Growth: Evidence from Brazil, Egypt and Jordan
(openscience, 2019-07) Salman Abdou, Doaa M.; Mohamed, Salma
This paper studies and enlightens mainly price discrimination; which is simply selling products for differentiated prices. First, a literature framework is detailed with all the theories and types of price discrimination throughout the years. It is a strategy that is used worldwide by so many companies and firms, but this paper studies specifically the activity of the major player in the Egyptian steel industry; Ezz steel. The research resulted in; that there is no price discrimination, activities are implied in the industry currently by the companies due to the interference of the government. However, before that, the company applied some strategies that are illustrated in the paper in detail.
Signals and Policies Required for Informal Markets: Evidence from Egypt & China
(open science, 2018-09) Salman Abdou, Doaa M.; Sherif, Nadeen; Sherif El Adawy, Nadeen
This paper is investigating the informal market in Egypt and China. First, it will go through the main concept of informal markets and the four main schools of thoughts, then the history of informal sector in Egypt and China since the 1970s' and the causes and effects of such phenomena. Also, it will go through the effect of informal sector on economic growth of a country and the characteristics of informal sector in any country. The paper suggests some solutions to overcome the problems of informal sector. The paper concluded that there are negative relation between informal sector and economic growth, and that developing countries often have bigger informal sector than developed countries and the poverty and unemployment play vital role in determining the size of the informal sector in an economy.
“Winners and Losers in the Tourism Industry along the Transition Process: Evidence from South and North Med countries”
(FEMISE, 2017-01) Samy, Mohamed; Tawfik Halim, Yasser; Salman Abdou, Doaa M.; Artal-Tur, Andrés
Tourism is the backbone for many Mediterranean (MED) countries, providing a pivotal source of foreign currencies, attracting investments, absorbing labour force and sharing in the countries development. Tourism is also a sensitive industry based on security and safety issues when attracting tourists from all over the world. In 2015, the Mediterranean region was the first world tourism destination with more than 250 million people in arrivals and 200,000 million dollar in receipts, due to the presence of the leading North shore destinations (France, Spain, Greece and Italy) and South-East shore countries (Egypt, Turkey and Tunisia) (UNWTO, 2016).