Bank efficiency in Middle East and North African countries: Does political connection type matter?

Financial Innovation

Table 1 Sample distribution

Country	No of banks	Observations	Percent of politically connected banks (%)
Bahrain	16	208	48.56
Egypt	16	192	31.77
Jordan	15	195	50.77
Kuwait	10	120	52.50
Lebanon	6	72	54.17
Morocco	6	72	38.89
Oman	8	104	36.54
Qatar	8	96	42.71
Saudi Arabia	12	156	42.95
Tunisia	11	132	42.42
Turkey	16	192	27.60
U.A.E	20	262	60.69
Total	144	1728	46.59

This table shows the number of our sampled banks, observations by country, and the percent of the politically connected banks by country