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The Impact of the Arab Spring on the Tunisian Economy
Matta, Samer - 2017
This paper uses Synthetic Control Methodology to estimate the output loss in Tunisia as a result of the "Arab Spring … Autoregressive Distributed Lag Model of Tunisia's economic growth. Moreover, this paper finds that investment was the main channel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967832
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Polarization and its Discontents : Morocco Before and after the Arab Spring
Clementi, Fabio - 2019
This paper uses data obtained from three Moroccan household surveys that took place between 2000 to 2013, to address issues related to the so-called "Arab puzzle." Welfare inequalities are low and declining in Arab countries and exist against the backdrop of a growing sense of dissatisfaction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012859486
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Public Infrastructure and Private Investment in the Middle East and North Africa
Agenor, Pierre-Richard; Nabli, Mustapha K.; Yousef, Tarik - 2006
East and North Africa: Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. The first part highlights various channels through which public … infrastructure has both flow and stock effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a stock effect in Jordan and Tunisia. But …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014063306
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Are the Benefits of Export Support Durable? Evidence from Tunisia
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
This paper evaluates the effects of the FAMEX export promotion program in Tunisia on the performance of beneficiary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974758
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The Economy-Wide Effects of Further Trade Reforms in Tunisia's Services Sectors
Dee, Philippa - 2017
The purpose of this paper is to benchmark Tunisia against other emerging economies in terms of the regulatory barriers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976493
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Egypt : Guiding Reform of Energy Subsidies Long-Term
Griffin, Peter - 2017
This paper examines the short- and long-run economic impact of Egypt's energy subsidy reform in July 2014 (without and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969988
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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Climate Change on Agriculture in Egypt : A Ricardian Approach
Eid, Helmy M. - 2016
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747672
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Cambodia 1998-2008 : An Episode of Rapid Growth
Guimbert, Stephane - 2017
Cambodia's growth over 1998-2008 has been remarkable (almost 10 percent per annum for a decade). This paper applies a "growth diagnostic" approach to understand how this happened and how it can be sustained. Past growth has been driven by the coincidence of a set of historical and geographic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976590
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Welfare Dynamics with Synthetic Panels : The Case of the Arab World in Transition
Dang, Hai-Anh - 2018
Tunisia, but downward mobility was pronounced in Yemen and Egypt. Subjective well-being dynamics suggest negative developments …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936385
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The Impact of Violence on Individual Risk Preferences : Evidence from a Natural Experiment
Jakiela, Pamela - 2017
This study estimates the impact of Kenya?s post-election violence on individual risk preferences. Because the crisis interrupted a longitudinal survey of more than five thousand Kenyan youth, this timing creates plausibly exogenous variation in exposure to civil conflict by the time of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012970835