, 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 …

Under increasing budget pressure, Morocco carried out an extensive set of subsidy reforms in 2014 and is planning for …

The framework for reform, recovery, and reconstruction (the 3RF) is part of a comprehensive response to the massive … efforts to put Lebanon on a path of sustainable development. The overall objective of the 3RF is to help address the urgent … set of strategic objectives and priority areas across both the recovery track and the reform and reconstruction track. The …

This paper studies Morocco's growth and employment prospects in the context of a new growth model aimed at allowing the … automation of low-skilled jobs, to avoid falling into a middle-income trap. The first part reviews the growth model that Morocco … in Morocco. The paper concludes that to achieve high-income status and reduce unemployment significantly, Morocco will …

capture, and then protect, these rents leads to the creation of new distortions, even as the reform process tries to move … governments throughout the economy sought to capture these rents by developing high margin industries. Continued reform, and …, leading local governments to impose a variety of interregional barriers to trade. Thus, the reform process led to the …

relatively quickly that reform ownership is a necessary requirement for countries to support and sustain reforms. At the same … time, it realized that reform implementation critically depends on credible institutions and good governance, which are …

newspaper articles in 28 languages. The paper shows that the intensity of reform chatter increases during economic downturns … relationship to be causal. The paper also documents that reform chatter is followed by actual reforms, suggesting that democracies … benefit from a "self-correcting" mechanism stemming from changing popular attitudes toward reform …

one- and two-year lags between media coverage and reform implementation. To achieve this objective, the study put together … reform. Second, countries with greater media coverage of Doing Business indicators tend to have higher numbers of implemented …