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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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Collective action by women's networks has been a strong driver of legislative change in many countries across the world. Women's groups in Botswana have used advocacy tools such as testing the implementation of gender equality principles in the national court system. In 1992, women's legal...
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Low utilization of household credit in developing countries may be partially due to religious considerations. In a randomized marketing experiment in Jordan, this paper estimates the effect of sharia-compliant loan features on demand for credit. To comply with Islamic law, the sharia-compliant...
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Egypt in 1983. A pilot program was followed by national promotion starting in February 1984. As early as 1985, opinions were … mortality in Egypt appear to have been greatly exaggerated, it does seem likely, in the absence of alternative explanations …
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Egypt. Farm net revenue were regressed against climate, soil, socioeconomic and hydrological variables to determine which … temperatures will constrain agricultural production in Egypt. Irrigation and technology are therefore the recommended adaptation …
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The Egyptian pound depreciated sharply between 2000 and 2005, declining by 26 percent in nominal trade-weighted terms. The author investigates the effect of the large depreciation on household welfare operating through exchange rate-induced changes in consumer prices. He estimates exchange rate...
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Arab Republic of Egypt. The paper examines empirically the relationship between the development of the financial sector and … economic growth in Egypt between 1980 and 2016. It draws comparisons based on critical financial indicators between Egypt and … financial development, to assess the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Egypt, yields three …
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This paper assesses the impact of Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the most populous … country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Using panel data from the 2012 and 2018 rounds of the Egypt Labor Market …
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The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies …, accumulation of arrears from the sector, poorly-maintained physical capital, and cross-subsidies across customer classes. Egypt …. Egypt has been able to achieve universal access with more or less reliable power over the entire period, except when chronic …
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The Arab Republic of Egypt is yet to meet its exports potential, which has been historically hampered by several … export performance. This paper analyzes Egypt's exports along three dimensions that are key for export performance and future …) relatedness to globally traded products. The analysis suggests that Egypt continues to specialize in traditional areas of …
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