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Labour market reforms, growth, and unemployment in labor-exporting countries in the Middle East and North Africa
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Nabli, Mustapha K.; Yousef, Tarik - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002123100
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The lives and livelihoods of Syrian refugees in the Middle East : evidence from the 2015‒16 surveys of Syrian refugees and host communities in Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, Iraq...
Krishnan, Nandini; Russo Riva, Flavio; Sharma, Dhiraj; … - 2020
documents the size and timing of the Syrian refugee influx into Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, characterizing the forced nature …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297932
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Economic effects of the Syrian war and the spread of the Islamic state on the Levant
Ianchovichina, Elena; Ivanic, Maros - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010457443
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Gainers and losers from trade reform in Morocco
Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002184806
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Coping with the influx : service delivery to Syrian refugees and hosts in Jordan, Lebanon, and Kurdistan, Iraq
Krishnan, Nandini; Russo Riva, Flavio; Sharma, Dhiraj; … - 2020
The Syrian crisis has led to rapid and large-scale population displacement. This paper uses several sources of data, including the United Nations Higher Commissioner for Refugees' registration database and multi-country, multi-topic surveys collected in 2015-16, to characterize service delivery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012297911
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The Real Exchange Rate and External Competitiveness in Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2013
Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia face challenges competing on the global markets, as shown by their relatively low and … misalignment, including in recent years, the exchange rates in Morocco and Tunisia have broadly reflected the underlying … countries' real exchange rate misalignments during the past three decades. While Egypt experienced periods of substantial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013071447
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Public infrastructure and private investment in the Middle East and North Africa
Agénor, Pierre-Richard; Nabli, Mustapha K.; Yousef, Tarik - 2005
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003049760
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Female Labor Force Participation in Five Selected MENA Countries : An Age-Period-Cohort Analysis (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia)
Lassassi, Moundir; Tansel, Aysit - 2021
namely, Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Palestine and Tunisia. Low FLFP rates in these countries, as it is in other MENA countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315083
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Did the Arab Spring Reduce MENA Countries' Growth?
Arayssi, Mahmoud - 2019
This paper examines the economic ramifications of the recent political reconfigurations that the MENA region witnessed, commonly known as the Arab Spring, utilizing MENA countries data during period 2005-2016. Using the Arellano-Bond dynamic panel estimation, the paper estimates a growth model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870335
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Regulation, Trust, and Cronyism in Middle Eastern Societies : The Simple Economics of 'Wasta'
Barnett, Andy - 2013
Despite being a fixture of everyday life in the Arab world, wasta, which may be thought of as special influence by members of the same group or tribe, has received little attention from social scientists. Our casual empiricism suggests that wasta is an important determinant of how economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086661