Mounir Belloumi

• PhD
• Professor (Full) at Najran University

This study analyzes the influence of natural resource rents, governance indicators, and their interactions on economic growth in twelve oil-producing countries in the MENA region from 2002 to 2021. Various versions of a panel ARDL model are estimated using PMG, MG, and DFE estimators. The results suggest that natural resource rents in MENA oil-prod...

In line with global efforts to address climate change, Saudi Arabia is dedicated to achieving net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The country has set a target to reduce 278 million tonnes of CO2 equivalent annually by 2030 as outlined in Vision 2030. This study aims to explore the potential impact of information and communication technology (I...

The aim of this study is to explore the influence of economic growth and financial development on renewable energy consumption. For the purpose of analysis, this investigation uses annual data on renewable energy consumption, economic growth, financial development, consumer price index, domestic investment, and foreign direct investment for 13 majo...

In this article, we study the heterogeneous relationship among energy consumption and economic growth by incorporation gross fixed capital formation, foreign direct investment, international trade and finance development as control variables in a selected sample of 11 countries of the Middle East and North Africa over the period 1980-2020 using a p...

Climate change has emerged as a global challenge because of its threat to sustainable development goals. Fossil fuels and economic growth are responsible for pollution and, thus, for climate change. In this context, this study explored the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for the case of 17 MENA countries over the period of 1990–2020. It inve...

The geopolitical risk (GPR) can be described as the risk connected with some crisis (e.g., wars, terrorist attacks, and conflicts between nations). Besides many other characteristics, OPEC+ countries are prone to risks and uncertainties. According to Bloom (2009) uncertainty is a broader concept that reflects ambiguity in the minds of decision-make...

This article aims to examine the dynamic relationships between foreign direct investment inflows, information and communication technologies, and economic growth in a sample of 15 Arab countries over the period 1995–2019 by employing a panel ARDL approach. The results of estimation of the panel ARDL model reveal that ICT and FDI have positive and s...

This study examines the factors that influence private investment in the Najran region of southern Saudi Arabia. We collected primary data from 120 potential investors from the Najran region in 2021 with a questionnaire for individual respondents. Using a logistic regression, we found that the variables representing the educational level of the inv...

This paper investigates the impact of corruption on economic growth and investments in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries over the period 2003 to 2016 using the panel vector error correction model and the panel fully modified ordinary least squares method developed by Pedroni. We find that there is at least one cointegration relationship betwee...

This study examines the impact trade openness has on sustainable development in Saudi Arabia. It does so by employing the autoregressive distributed lag cointegration framework, using annual data over the period 1971 to 2016. Overall, the findings suggest the existence of a long-term relationship between trade openness and two indicators of sustain...

We investigate the contribution of several variables concerning the severity of accidents involving vehicle occupant and pedestrian victims in Tunisia. In order to investigate the effect of various explanatory variables, Odds Ratio (OR) effects are considered for both serious injury accidents and fatal accidents. The empirical results are of great...

We investigate the contribution of several variables concerning the severity of accidents involving vehicle occupant and pedestrian victims in Tunisia. In order to investigate the effect of various explanatory variables, Odds Ratio (OR) effects are considered for both serious injury accidents and fatal accidents. The empirical results are of great...

This paper examines the impact of renewable energy consumption, economic growth, foreign direct investment inflows and trade on carbon dioxide emissions for a panel of 12 Middle East and North Africa countries over the period 1980–2012 using the recent Panel Vector Autoregressive model with multi-domain analysis framework. The results from Granger...

La montée des pressions des stakeholders environnementaux a conduit les entreprises surtout industrielles à adopter des stratégies environnementales. Cette remise en cause se matérialise par la réalisation des projets de dépollution dits aussi des actions environnementales. Les implications économiques des ces actions a crée un grand débat entre le...

The purpose of the present study is to explore the linkage between Hazardous Road Locations-based crash counts and a variety of geometric characteristics, roadway characteristics, traffic flow characteristics and spatial features in the region of Sousse, Tunisia. For this purpose, collision data was collected from at 52 hazardous road sections incl...

Climate variability in Tunisia (a marked difference between the availability of water in the North West and the use of water for irrigation in the North East of Tunisia) makes water resource both scarce and unequally distributed in time and space. This issue led to search for mechanism that make water management more efficient and that ensure a goo...

High risk of vulnerable road users (VRUs) injuries and fatalities have received higher interest nowadays in Tunisia. By using VRUs crash record (from January 1, 2001 to December 31, 2013), we describe the spatial pattern of VRUs collisions according to different temporal scales such as (a.m. vs p.m. rush hours VRUs collisions, working days vs non-w...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the direction of causality between poverty, inequality and economic growth in Tunisia using time series data covering the period 1970-2013. We use in this paper the ARDL bound testing approach to cointegration and Toda and Yamamoto (1995) modification of the Granger causality test. The result of bound testing...

This paper investigates the causal links between domestic capital investment, foreign direct investment (FDI), and economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period 1970–2015 by using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) bounds testing to cointegration approach. The fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS), dynamic ordinary least squares (D...

The objective of this study was to examine the role of social security in fighting poverty in Metlaoui, Tunisia, using survey data collected between July 2012 and January 2014, covering 200 poor households. We used questionnaire data, which gave a thorough analysis of the reactions, behavior, and strategies adopted by poor households as a result of...

The purpose of article is to nvestigate the effect of Small and Medium Enterprise (SME) family characteristics’ on their strategy through the concept of knowledge of corporate social responsibility. Based on the literature review show, the social network has a positive but low effect on corporate social responsibility. The organizational learning c...

Climate variability in Tunisia (a marked difference between the availability of water in the North West and the use of water for irrigation in the North East of Tunisia) makes water resource both scarce and unequally distributed in time and space. This issue led to search for mechanism that make water management more efficient and that ensure a goo...

This paper aims to study the impact of the characteristics of family SMES on the strategy of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) family. The review of literature shows that the social network has a positive, but low effect on the social responsibility of business. However, conservatism has a negative effect on social responsibility of business. A...

This article aims to examine the features impact of the SMEs family on family corporate social responsibility (CSR) who have not achieved their transmissions through knowledge corporate social responsibility. The knowledge of CSR is introduced as a mediatory variable to explain the adoption of social responsibility of the family business. Data have...

In view of Saudi Arabia's position as one of the main polluters in the World and its status as an oil country, it is interesting to study the relationship between transport carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, road transport energy consumption and economic activity in Saudi Arabia. We check for the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Saudi Arabia...

Climate variability in Tunisia (a marked difference between the availability of water in the North West and the use of water for irrigation in the North East of Tunisia) makes water resource both scarce and unequally distributed in time and space. This issue led to search for mechanism that make water management more efficient and that ensure a goo...

Due to rapid economic development and accelerated urbanization, Tunisia's transport sector has experienced a dramatic growth that leads to excessive demand for fossil fuel energy. This study identifies the driving factors and measures their corresponding contributions in transportation energy consumption for the case of Tunisia by using the logarit...

This paper investigates the long-term and causal relationship between energy intensity, real GDP per capita, urbanization and industrialization in Saudi Arabia over the period 1971–2012 using the breakpoint unit root tests developed by Perron (1989) and the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) model bounds testing to cointegration proposed by Pesa...

The objective of this study is to investigate the contribution of several variables involving vehicle occupant and pedestrian victim using the Negative Binomial (NB) and Multinomial Logit models (MNL) by employing the data of 7000 subjects involved in serious accidents in Tunisia between 2010 and 2013. For the NB model, empirical results show that...

In this study, we investigate the contribution of several variables to the driver, pedestrian and passenger accident severity using Multinomial Logit models (MNL) by employing the data of 15000 subjects involved in serious accidents that are obtained from the STATS19 accident database in Great Britain between 2004 and 2012. Accident causality sever...

In view of Saudi Arabia’s position as one of the main polluters in the World and its status as an oil country, it is interesting to study the relationship between transport carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, road transport energy consumption and economic activity in Saudi Arabia. We check for the environmental Kuznets curve hypothesis for Saudi Arabia...

With Tunisia’s rapid economic development and accelerated urbanization, its transport sector has experienced a dramatic growth that leads to excessive demand for fossil energy. This study investigates the logarithmic-mean Divisia index method (LMDI) over the period 1985-2012, to identify the driving factors and measure their corresponding contribut...

This study investigates the causal relationships between transportation infrastructure (rail and road), the transport value added, gross capital formation, transportation energy consumption and 〖transport CO〗_2 emissions in Tunisia over the period of 1971-2012. We use the Johansen multivariate cointegration approach, generalized impulse response fu...

This study explores the relationship between variables representing road transport performance, transportation value added, transportation energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Tunisia by using the Johansen cointegration approach over the period 1985-2012. The results indicate that there exists a long-run relationship between the different variab...

The present work provides an international comparison of the energy intensity and the carbon dioxide intensity in road transport for a group of 90 countries over the period 1980-2012. This paper attempts to perform a comparative analysis to find the most appropriate mapping of the energy performance in road transport taking into account the three d...

The main objective of this research is to study the role of energy consumption in economic growth in Saudi Arabia over the period of 1971–2012 using the autoregressive distributed lag (ARDL) cointegration procedure, and based on neoclassical growth, endogenous growth, and ecological-economics viewpoints. Our empirical results show the existence of...

The main objective of this study was to analyze the impact of environmental strategies on productivity in industries that face different environmental stakeholders' pressures using the data of 26 Tunisian manufacturing industries over the period 1994–2008. We first measured the evolution of total factor productivity (TFP) as well as its components...

This paper studies the causal relationships between fossil fuels consumption, CO2 emissions and economic activity at aggregate and disaggregate levels in Saudi Arabia using the multivariate cointegration approach. The results show the existence of a long-run equilibrium relationship between fossil fuels consumption, carbon dioxide emissions and eco...

Global warming has been a big issue since the end of the 20 th century. Climate change impacts different economic sectors and mainly agriculture. Although African countries are among the lightest polluters, they will suffer the most from climate change.The negative impacts of climate change on agricultural production should be important since agric...

Global warming has been a significant issue since the end of the 20 th century. Climate change impacts different economic sectors, primarily agriculture. African countries will be the most affected by climate variability even though they contribute the least to world pollution. The negative impacts of climate change on agricultural production shoul...

This paper investigates the effect of climate variables (precipitation and temperature) on food security indicators from 1961-2011 for 10 Eastern and Southern African countries by estimating fixed effects models. Food security is approximated by three indicators: food production index, mortality rate of people under five years of age, and life expe...

The relationship between foreign direct investment (FDI), trade openness and economic growth in host countries remains one of the most important issues in the economic literature and met with renewed interest in recent years mainly for countries suffering from unemployment problems and lack of technological progress. This paper examines this issue...

Avertissement : les positions et analyses tenues dans ce rapport relèvent de responsabilité de l'auteur et ne reflètent pas nécessairement le point de vue officiel du Plan Bleu Partie I : Développement du territoire et AMCP : Etat des lieux et analyse rétrospective des interactions clés 3 Chapitre 1 : Le développement territorial autour des îles Ku...

La montée des pressions des stakeholders environnementaux a conduit les entreprises surtout industrielles à adopter des stratégies environnementales. Cette remise en cause se matérialise par la réalisation des projets de dépollution dits aussi des actions environnementales. Les implications économiques des ces actions a crée un grand débat entre le...

La montée des pressions des stakeholders environnementaux a conduit les entreprises surtout industrielles à adopter des stratégies environnementales. Cette remise en cause se matérialise par la réalisation des projets de dépollution dits aussi des actions environnementales. Les implications économiques des ces actions a crée un grand débat entre le...

Les ressources naturelles et environnementales ont connu une sur-utilisation excessive, accompagnee parfois meme de degradations irreversibles, qui menacent serieusement l'equilibre ecologique indispensable a la survie et a la perennite de notre planete. L'objectif majeur de ce travail est d'estimer, par la methode d'evaluation contingente, la vale...

L'impact de la régulation environnementale sur la productivité est une question très controversée. L'objectif principal de notre papier est de vérifier l'hypothèse de Porter dans le contexte des sous secteurs d'industrie tunisienne pour la période allant de 1994 à 2008. Nos résultats économétriques d'un modèle des données de panel ont montré que le...

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of tourism in the Tunisian economic growth. We used a trivariate model of real gross domestic product (GDP), real international tourism receipts and real effective exchange rate to discuss the relationship between tourism and economic growth. By using annual data for Tunisia for the period of 1970–...

In this paper, the Johansen cointegration technique is used to examine the causal relationship between per capita energy consumption (PCEC) and per capita gross domestic product (PCGDP) for Tunisia during the 1971–2004 period. In order to test for Granger causality in the presence of cointegration among the variables, a vector error correction mode...

La plupart des études empiriques tunisiennes portant sur le calcul de la productivité totale des facteurs (PTF) ont pris le cas des secteurs industriels ou des entreprises, mais aucune n'a porté sur les sous secteurs industriels tunisiens. Pour cela, nous postulons dans ce travail de recherche de calculer par la méthode de la comptabilité de la cro...

This paper investigates the patterns of agricultural productivity growth in 16 Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries during the period 1970 - 2000. We use a nonparametric, output-based Malmquist index to examine whether our estimates confirm or invalidate the previous studies results indicating the decrease of agricultural productivity in d...

In the perspective of globalization, the Middle East and North Africa countries must revise soundly their irrigation strategies, pay more attention to virtual water trade and resolve problems of transboundary water resource management, if they want to maintain an irrigation sector able to secure a minimum food security. Development (2008) 51, 135–1...

Technical and scale efficiencies have been widely studied in agricultural production literature, but many of the inputs used can impact the environment. Environmental impacts can take the form of undesirable output, a non-discretionary production input or, as has been the case in many studies, a conventional input. In this paper, we develop a DEA (...

La détermination de la performance productive des irrigants dans des oasis du sud Tunisien en utilisant l'approche paramétrique de frontière stochastique de production constitue la base de ce travail. En effet, la production des dattes sur pied s'explique par quatre facteurs : la quantité d'eau appliquée, le travail, le fumier et le phosphate. L'él...

The objective of this paper is to develop a Data Envelopment Analysis DEA model with water salinity as a non-discretionary input and estimate a model of irrigated water demand function based on the role of water in the farm production function. We model production technology by distinguishing six inputs and four outputs. The adjusted-DEA model is a...

La détermination de la performance productive des irrigants dans des oasis du sud Tunisien en utilisant l'approche paramétrique de frontière stochastique de production constitue la base de ce travail. En effet, la production des dattes sur pied s'explique par quatre facteurs : la quantité d'eau appliquée, le travail, le fumier et le phosphate. L'él...

The main objective of this research is to compare estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach for two samples of farmers of private and water user as-sociations in the Nefzaoua Oases region (Tunisia), which are characterized by a severe scar-city of water and especially a high degree of salinity. Technical ineff...

The objective of this paper is to understand farm-level date yield variations, to estimate the impact of various inputs on date yields of farms, and to estimate the effects of farm-specific socioeconomic factors and environmental factors on irrigation water productivity in Nefzaoua Oases. The effect of water salinity on date yields is of particular...

The main objective of this research is to compare estimates of technical efficiency obtained from the stochastic frontier approach for two samples of private and GIC (associative system) farmers in Nefzaoua Oases (Tunisia) which are characterized by a severe scarcity of water and especially a high degree of salinity. Technical inefficiency effects...

Le secteur palmier dattier joue un rôle très important dans les régions de Nefzaoua et Tozeur au sud tunisien sur les plans social, économique et écologique. Il est directement ou indirectement source de vie, par sa production des dattes et par les divers usages de ses sous-produits pour les oasiens et leur cheptel. Il représente un facteur de pros...

L'objectif majeur de ce travail est d'estimer, par la méthode d' évaluation contingente, la valeur de préservation de la qualité d'une nappe souterraine menacée par la salinisation ainsi que la détennination des variables explicatives du consentement à payer (CAP) des usagers. Une telle valeur peut être intégrée dans une analyse avantagescoûts pour...