The global financial crisis in 2008 and its implications for international development

This research aims to shed light on the global financial crisis and its impact on international development, and touched on the types of crises and economic indicators associated with these crises, and people search the global financial crisis in 2008, and the stages and how they occur, then turned to look at the causes and manifestations and the most important sectors those affected by the crisis, and the most harmful to the international development. The research explained the effects of the financial crisis on the financial markets and international development plans and addressed both in the United States or the industrialized nations or the developing countries , and Responding of the countries and organizations to it .The research found a number of results, and made some proposals.

Testing the Monthly Effect on Stock Returns in a Sample of Arab Stock Markets

This study investigates the Monthly Effect (Semi-Month Effect and Turn of the Month Effect) in the stock markets of Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and Syria, over the period from January 2010 to December 2014. The daily returns for each index were analyzed by using T test or Mann-Whitney test. Moreover, the regression analysis was also applied.