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Digital Financial Inclusion and Socioeconomic Sustainability in Saudi...

We analyze the relationship between the expansion of middle class in 42 African... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1783

Topic

O3. Technological Change, Research and Development, Intellectual Property Rights

G2. Financial Institutions and Services

I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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The Effect of International Sanctions on the Size...

We analyze the relationship between the expansion of middle class in 42 African... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1782

Topic

P3. Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions

I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

F1. Trade

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Tracing the COVID-19 Footprint: A Sectoral Interrupted Time...

We analyze the relationship between the expansion of middle class in 42 African... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1781

Topic

E4. Money and Interest Rates

Q4. Energy

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Bridging Education and Fertility: Unraveling the Role of...

We analyze the relationship between the expansion of middle class in 42 African... Read More

Date

June, 2025

No.

1780

Topic

I14 Health and Inequality

J1. Demographic Economics

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Domestic and External Determinants of Inflation: An Empirical...

We analyze the relationship between the expansion of middle class in 42 African... Read More

Date

June, 2025

No.

1779

Topic

E3. Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

E5. Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

E6. Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook

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Revisiting the Middle-Class Myth: Evidence From A Cross-Country Analysis of African Social Progress

We analyze the relationship between the expansion of middle class in 42 African countries and... Read More

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Determinants of Household Education Expenditure in Sudan

This paper examines the factors that influence households' expenditure on education in Sudan using the... Read More

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Political Stability, Firm Characteristics and Performance: Evidence From 6,083 Private Firms in the Middle East

Using firm-level data from an EBRD/EIB/WB joint survey covering more than 6,000 private firms in... Read More

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The Race to the Top: Institutional Clusters and World FDI Shares

The literature on the institutions-FDI nexus has treated the influence of institutions independently of each... Read More

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The Microeconomic Impact of Political Instability: Firm-Level Evidence from Tunisia

This paper explores the impact of political instability on firms. The context of this paper... Read More

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Firm Productivity, Technology and Export Status, What Can We Learn from Egyptian Industries?

We explore to what extent the export status and technological choices are related to firm... Read More

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Return Migrants and the Wage Premium: Does the Legal Status of Migrants Matter?

This paper examines the long-term impact of the legal status of overseas temporary migrants. Using... Read More

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Targeting Debt in Lebanon: A Structural Macro-Econometric Model

Quality statistics on developing economies in the Arab region are rare, and their advanced analysis... Read More

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Standards and Market Power: Evidence from Tunisia

We develop a theoretical model and derive conditions under which firms with market power try... Read More

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