Modeling the Economic Complexity of Iran and Other MENA Countries

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Shahabadi, A., & Sadeghi Motamedd, Z. (2021). The interaction of abundance of natural resources through the governance index and brain drain on economic complexity in the selected oil countries. *Iranian Journal of Trade Studies, 25*(99), 203–232. 

Shahabadi, A., Chayani, T., & Sadeghi Motamed, Z. (2021). Investigating the simultaneous effect of globalization and innovation on the economic complexity of selected countries. 

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