that altruism could have played an important role in the flow of remittances to Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, Pakistan, and … Tunisia in recent years …

Egypt, Jordan, Morocco, and Tunisia. The paper constructs three measures of exchange rate misalignment based on purchasing …

, 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 …

contribution of fiscal consolidation and reform toward addressing this challenge. On the basis of an examination of fiscal … structures, reform and adjustment efforts, and their growth implications during 1980-95, it concludes that the ongoing process of … fiscal reform—aimed at reducing budget deficits, improving the budgetary structure, and enhancing the effectiveness of …

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 …

This paper addresses the issue of the appropriate exchange rate regimes for Jordan and Lebanon in the context of the … economy. It presents some empirical results on the nature of output shocks in Jordan and Lebanon in the recent past, on the … price sensitivity of exports from Jordan, and on currency and asset substitution in both countries. It does not directly …