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are interviewed multiple times with repeat visits throughout the year. The paper provides an example from Jordan, where … been affected by poverty in Jordan during 2010 is more than twice as large as the official 2010 estimate of poverty …
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and the Unemployment and Employment Survey in Jordan are quite encouraging, with imputation-based poverty estimates …
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of the largest gender disparities. It exploits the massive roll-out of mobile broadband technology in Jordan between 2010 …
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economic institutions from the surge of refugees from the First Gulf War. The surge of refugees to Jordan in 1990?1991 was … massive and equal to 10 percent of Jordan's population in 1990. Importantly, these refugees were able to have a large and … quirk in Jordanian law. The refugee surge was the main mechanism by which Jordan's economic institutions improved in the …
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Facing a fiscal crisis, Jordan initiated substantial petroleum subsidy reforms in 2012. The government has also long … factor in the successful implementation of reforms in Jordan …
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Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic …
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Unemployment rates for tertiary-educated youth in Jordan are high, as is the duration of unemployment. Two randomized … experiments in Jordan were used to test different theories that may explain this phenomenon. The first experiment tested the role …
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Jordan's economic growth in the past decade has translated into a significant rise in household consumption and a … services sector and the public sector as the major determinants of welfare growth in Jordan. Public hiring in particular was …
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participation, low. This paper studies the impact of a randomized experiment in Jordan designed to assist female community college …
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The Jordan Education Initiative, launched in 2003 under the umbrella of the World Economic Forum, is a public … system in Jordan that began in the 1990s. The Jordan Education Initiative's main objective is to help Jordanian students …
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