Nora Colton

Office: 203 Lewis House
Phone: x3665
Email: ncolton@drew.edu

Title: Professor of Economics (1993)

Degrees:  PhD, Oxford University (1993); MS, Arizona State University (1986); BS Arizona State University (1984)

Teaching Experience:

Specialties:

 International economics, International Business, Economic Development, Economics of the Middle East

Research Interests:

See below 

Selected Publications:

Books:

•Political Economy of Yemen (Under review with Routledge Press, U.K.)

•Middle East Finance: Missed-opportunities or Future Prospects?, editor with Simone Neamie (New York: Elsevier 2005)

Chapters in Books:

•Economic and Political Realities of Labor Migration: the Case of Yemen, Yemen Into the Twenty First Century: Continuity and Change, eds. Kamil Mahdi, Anna Wuerth and Helen Lackner(Reading: Ithaca Press, 2007)

•Women, Gender and Labor Migration and Remittances: Arab States; Women, Gender, Migration Policies and Laws: Arab States; and Women, Gender, and Regional Migration: Arab States, Encyclopedia of Women and Islamic Cultures, eds. Julie Peteer and Seteney Shami (The Netherlands: Brill Publishers, 2006)

•Foreign Direct Investment in Tunisia: Role of the Free Trade Agreement with European Union, Money and Finance in the Middle East: Missed Opportunities or Future Prospects? eds. Nora Ann Colton and Simon Neamie (New York: Elsevier 2005).

•Economy and Economics Institutions, Enclyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, ed. By Richard C. Martin (Macmillan Press, 2003)

•Between 'Supply Shocked' Markets: The Case of Jordanian and Palestinian Returnees, Structural Flaws in the Middle East Peace Process, ed. J.W. Wright (Palgrave Macmillan Press, 2002)

•The Maghrebi Economies as Emerging Markets?, North Africa in Transition: Socio-Economic and Political Change in the Post-Cold War Era, ed. Yahia H. Zoubir (University of Florida Press, 1999)

 

Refereed Journal Articles:

•Does Trade substitute for Factor Mobility or does factor mobility substitute for trade: the case of North Africa (Submitted for review in the Journal of North African Studies)

•Revisiting Structuralism: Poverty Alleviation in Yemen (Submitted for review in World Development)

•Foreign Direct Investment in Yemen, International Journal of Middle East Studies (Forthcoming)

•A Perspective on the Future Dollar-Euro Exchange Rate: Implications for the Peripheral Mediterranean Countries, Collaborative project with Dr. Simone Neame, Institute of Money and Banking, American University of Beirut (Thunderbird International Business Review, March- April 2003, vol. 45, 2)

•The Dominant Role of Migration in the Development of the Republic of Yemen, Journal of Critical Studies of Iran and the Middle East (Spring 1995)

•The Silent Victims: Yemeni Migrants Return Home, translated into Arabic, Political Studies on Yemen, 1990-1994, edited by Abdu Hamood Al-Sharif,(Sana'a: American Institute for Yemeni Studies, 1996)

•Homeward Bound: Yemeni Return Migration, International Migration Review Vol.27, No. 4 (Winter 1993)

•The Silent Victims: Yemeni Migrants Return Home, The Oxford International Review Vol. III, No.1 (Winter 1991)

Professional Journals and Magazines:

•Why Reform Programs Don't Alleviate Poverty: A View from Arabia, Daily Star, Beirut, September 27, 2001

•Oil vs. Nonoil Growth: the GCC in the 1990s, Global Assessment, Special Issue, September 1996

•The North African Miracle, Global Assessment, Special Issue, May 1996

•The New Middle East: Open for Business, Global Assessment, Special Issue, February 1996

Work in Progress:

•Labor Markets in the Middle East in the 1990s, (Book manuscript in preparation for publication)

•The Educational Dilemma of the Poor: A Case Study from Egypt (in preparation for publication)

•Petrol Dollars and Globalization (grant proposal for a project on the impact of petrol dollars on the world economy starting with the 1973 oil crisis to present. I argue that globalization defined as the expansion of foreign direct investment, portfolio investment and trade can be directly lined to the flow of petrol dollars into the international monetary system.)

Book Reviews:

•Review of Smyth, Russel, On Kit Tam, Malcom Warner, and Cherrie Jiuhua Zhu, eds. China’s Business Reforms: Instututional Challenges in a Globalized Economy in Journal of Asian Economics (Spring 2006)

•Review of Cyrus Bina and Hamid Zangeneh's Modern Capitalism and Islamic Ideology in Iran in Harvard Middle Eastern and Islamic Review (Spring 1995)

•Review of Richard Adams' The Effect of International Remittances on Poverty, Inequality and Development in Rural Egypt in Middle East Studies Association Bulletin (No. 30, 1996)

•Review of Mahmoud A.T. El-Khafif's The Egyptian Economy in International Journal of Middle East Studies (Spring 1999)

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