Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,168
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
Rules on paper, rules in practice : enforcing laws and policies in the Middle East and North Africa
2016 - Online-Ausg.
customs regulations in Tunisia -- Exclusion and norms : enforcing women's right to property in Jordan -- Annex 1: Regional … : hypotheses and empirics -- Discretion and taxability : enforcing tax rules in Morocco -- Discretion and good practice : enforcing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245276
Cover Image
The Fallout of War : The Regional Consequences of the Conflict in Syria
The World Bank - 2020
of the Syrian conflict on economic and social outcomes in Iraq, Jordan, and Lebanon. It combines a large number of data … advanced economies in the world. The Fallout of War: The Regional Consequences of the Conflict in Syria identifies the impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644311
Cover Image
The Fallout of War : The Regional Consequences of the Conflict in Syria
World Bank Group - 2020
As a region, the Mashreq has seen more than its share of deaths, economic losses, and instability for the last decade. The region has braved massive economic and social shocks that would challenge even the most advanced economies in the world. The conflict in the Syrian Arab Republic has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012647331
Cover Image
The welfare of Syrian refugees : evidence from Jordan and Lebanon
Verme, Paolo; Gigliarano, Chiara; Wieser, Christina; … - 2016
Acknowledgments -- Executive summary -- Overview -- Background and motivation -- Structure of the report and questions asked -- A profile of refugees -- Welfare and poverty -- Vulnerability -- Policies -- A comparative analysis across countries and data sets -- Appendix -- Conclusions -- References
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012245205
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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