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When Do Autocracies Start to Liberalize Foreign Trade? Evidence from Four Cases in the Arab World
Richter, Thomas - 2010
procurement. A longitudinal comparison of four countries (Morocco, Tunisia, Egypt and Jordan) in the Middle East and North Africa … Devisenbewirtschaftung unterliegt. Ein historischer Vergleich von vier Staaten (Marokko, Tunesien, Ägypten und Jordanien) in der Region …
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Cluster policy as a development strategy: Case studies from the Middle East and North Africa
Benner, Maximilian - 2012
presents case studies from Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Tunisia, and Algeria. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294480
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The Impact of the Multifiber Agreement Phaseout on Unemployment in Tunisia: A Prospective Dynamic Analysis
Marouani, Mohamed A. - 2005
Agreement dismantling on unemployment in Tunisia. The specification of intertemporal behavior of households and firms permits …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296388
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Labour-Use Efficiency in Tunisian Manufacturing Industries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003
This paper investigates the process of adjustment in employment. A dynamic model is applied to a panel of six Tunisian manufacturing industries observed over the period 1971?96. The adjustment process is industry and time specific. The adjustment parameter is specified in terms of factors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262110
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The Impacts of Trade Liberalization on Employment and Wages in Tunisian Industries
Haouas, Ilham; Yagoubi, Mahmoud; Heshmati, Almas - 2003
equations are estimated using data (1971?96) for importable and exportable sectors in Tunisia. Causality tests show that … of labour increased dramatically in Tunisia as women entered the labour market. This allowed importable employment to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262111
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Tunisia's development experience: A success story?
Baliamoune-Lutz, Mina - 2009
Tunisia's recent growth and development performance relative to countries in its region, and relative to countries at … of Tunisia's path to development reveals that the country's development strategy relied primarily on diversifying its … caused fertility to decline significantly are a hallmark of Tunisia's development strategy. This paper reviews Tunisia …
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Labor market dynamics in Tunisia: The issue of youth unemployment
Stampini, Marco; Verdier-Chouchane, Audrey - 2011
This paper analyzes the dynamics of the youth labor market in Tunisia using unique labor force survey data from 2005 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278333
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Anti-poverty transfers without riots in Tunisia
Muller, Christophe - 2007
We draw some lessons from the Tunisian experience of social reforms and associated civil conflict. Our main interest is the riots that occurred after subsidy cuts and their possible substitution of price subsidies by direct cash transfers. We propose new welfare indicators apt to assess policy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319085
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Tackling social exclusion: Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro; Galasso, Emanuela; Ginja, Rita - 2014
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011396722
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The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?
Stampini, Marco; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2012
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are an endogenous innovation from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that aims to reduce current poverty while developing the human capital of the next generation, in the attempt to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Pioneered in Brazil and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331378