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Over the past two years, ongoing political transitions in many Arab countries have led to social unrest and an economic downturn. This paper examines comparable historical episodes of political instability to derive implications for the near- and medium-term economic outlook in the Arab...
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economic challenges. For a number of years Egypt has suffered from low and non-inclusive growth and from high unemployment … evidenced by loss of foreign exchange reserves. In 2014, Egypt adopted a new constitution and elected a new president who was …€“80 percent in July 2014. They have also begun the reforms needed to raise tax revenue and to make Egypt a more attractive …
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covering 1989–2004 for banks in Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, and Tunisia. The results provide clear support for a …
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This paper investigates macro-financial linkages in Egypt using two complementary methods, assessing the interaction …
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Since the onset of the Arab Spring, economic uncertainty in Egypt, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Yemen (Arab …
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The recent housing bust has reignited interest in psychological theories of speculative excess (Shiller, 2007). I investigate this issue by identifying a segment of the U.S. population-evangelical protestants-that may be less prone to speculative motives, and uncover a significant negative...
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’s Dilemma games, it also is a byproduct of religion, tradition, shared historical experience, and other types of cultural norms …
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one of the lowest participation rates for women among peer countries. Using extensive Indian household survey data, we … model the labor force participation choices of women, conditional on demographic characteristics and education, as well as …
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fertility, and (iv) there is a need for more public spending on childcare for age 6-11 in Japan and Korea to help women continue …
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This Selected Issues paper examines how surges in global financial market volatility spill over to emerging market economies (EMs) including India. The results suggest that a surge in global financial market volatility is transmitted very strongly to key macroeconomic and financial variables of...
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