Areas of Interest:
- Development Economics
- Applied Micro-econometrics
- General Equilibrium Models
Education:
- Ph.D., Economics, Faculte des Sciences Economiques & Gestion de Tunis (FSEGT), Tunisia, 2001
- M.Sc., General Economics, Universite Laval, 1995
Experience:
- Research Advisor, Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (HRSDC), Labour Program, Research and Data Development (RDD) Division, 2010-Present
- Research Fellow and Deputy Leader at the Poverty and Economic Policy (PEP) network, Universite Laval, Quebec Canada. 2006-2010
- Associate-Professor of Economics, Faculte des Sciences Economiques & Gestion de Tunis, 2004-2006
Latest Publications:
- L’Effet des Taxes et des Transferts sur la Pauvret´e au Qu´ebec et au Canada. Joint work with: Jean-Yves DUCLOS, Universit´e Laval. Forthcoming in: Canadian Public Policy/Analyse de politiques. 2011
- Gender Poverty in Tunisia: Is there a Feminization Issue? Co-auteur: Rim CHATTI, IHEC Carthage, Tunisie. Middle East Develop- ment Journal, vol. 2 (2), pp. 283-307, 2010
- Refining Targeting Against Poverty: Evidence from Tunisia. Joint work with: Christophe MULLER, University of Cergy, France. Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, vol. 72 (3), pp. 381-410, 2010
Working Papers
Comparing Effects of General Subsidies and Targeted Transfers on Poverty: Robustness Analysis Using Data Set from Tunisia
This paper starts by presenting a descriptive analysis of the effects of general food subsidies ... read more
Working Papers
On The Impact of Labor Tax Reforms on Unemployment in Tunisia
The purpose of this paper is to study the effects of tax reforms on unemployment ... read more
Working Papers
Does The Specification of A New Class of Poverty Measures Matter? Evidence from Tunisia
The evaluation of the horizontal inefficiency of an anti-poverty design is often reduced to the ... read more
Working Papers
Equity and Policy Effectiveness with Imperfect Targeting
We propose a general approach that jointly integrates horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the ... read more
Policy Research Reports
Equity and Inequality in the Arab Region
This report provides a review of empirical knowledge about income inequality in the Arab region, ... read more
Project
Research Initiative for Arab Development (RIAD)
Trends, Profile...
This project attempted to measure, ... read more
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