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The study of demographic trends in sub-Saharan Africa though crucial in the assessment of the impact of population size and growth on the overall socio-economic development in the region, has received the least attention due to lack of reliable data for most of the countries. This paper focuses...
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Morocco and Tunisia have both achieved robust economic growth over the last 30 years by utilizing prudent economic … Morocco and Tunisia have transformed both from economically challenged debt-burdened nations into technologically advanced … Tunisia one of 5.1%. To put that in perspective, the World as-a-whole has grown at 2.0% per year and the United States at 1 …
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evidence of inefficient use of energy in Tunisia, since environmental pressure tends to rise faster than economic growth … mutual causality in the long-run implying that Tunisia is an energy dependent economy.From a policy perspective, policy … makers in Tunisia should be mindful that a persistent decline in environmental quality may exert negative externalities to …
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Tunisia, since environmentalpressure tends to rise faster than economic growth. In theshort run, results support the argument … response do notconfirm the hypothesis that an increase in pollution levelinduces economic expansion. Although Tunisia has …
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Capital account liberalization and exchange rate regime choice, what scope for flexibility in Tunisia? This study … model framework, Tunisia’s exchange rate regime choice is cast in terms of strategic interactions between the monetary …
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This study investigates regional marital fertility differentials in Egypt and their relationship to the level of … birth rate in Egypt, the long term fertility and mortality levels are discussed. The prospects of a fertility transition in … Egypt are assessed in terms of the current fertility level and pattern, the extent of deliberate fertility regulation, the …
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The literature on economics of transition has suggested a number of scenarios to explain unemployment and labour reallocation in Eastern Europe. However, it has recently been argued that these so-called Optimal Speed of Transition (OST) studies do not account for many stylized facts concerning...
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This work revisits the role of regulations in emergence o f the shadow economy. In particular, it supplements the previous theoretical research that mainly ignored the fact that the decision to “go underground” is essentially a result of both employers and employees interacting in the labour...
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This paper analyses the emergence of the informal economy in the environment characterised by non-competitive labour markets with wage bargaining. We develop a simple extension of the standard search model à la Pissarides (2000) with formal and informal sectors to show how a government’s...
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