, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …

hold in the Middle East and Central Asia. We provide an overview of two gender budgeting efforts in the region-Morocco and … reducing maternal mortality. But the region not only needs to use fiscal policies for women's advancement, but also reform tax …

Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and … refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …

Lebanon is expected to have gas resources in its Mediterranean basin, and these could turn thecountry into a natural … gas producer over the next decade. Lebanon's economy and institutions will thus need to adapt to the challenges and … opportunities that such change will bring. In this paper, we address how Lebanon's fiscal framework will need to be reformulated to …

We study the role of firms in the political economy of trade agreements. Using detailed information from lobbying … reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, we find that virtually all firms that lobby on free trade agreements (FTAs …) support their ratification. Moreover, relative to non-lobbying firms, lobbying firms are larger, and more likely to be engaged …

timing of the extensions of this right from elite groups to a broad population generally later, than in areas where there was …

yield curve, which is ofdirect relevance to macroeconomic policy-making. In Morocco's context, we find that tightermonetary …, could benefit Morocco and strengthen thetransmission mechanisms and effectiveness of macroeconomic policies …