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Currency-Plus-Commodity Basket: A Proposal for a New Exchange Rate Arrangement for Gulf Oil-Exporting Countries

Jeffrey A. Frankel

In a nutshell • Oil-exporting countries have experienced huge swings in the dollar price of oil ... read more

Historical Legacies and Gender Attitudes in the Middle East

Veronica Kostenko , Eduard Ponarin, , Musa Shteiwi, and Olga Strebkova and

This paper focuses on transformations of gender attitudes in a set of Arab societies covered ... read more

Do Sovereign Wealth Funds Dampen the Negative Effects of Commodity Price Volatility?

Kamiar Mohaddes and Mehdi Raissi and

This paper studies the impact of commodity terms of trade (CToT) volatility on economic growth ... read more

Debunking Myth: Economic Values in the Arab World Through the Prism of Opinion Polls

Ishac Diwan and Zafiris Tzannatos and

Using World Value Survey opinion poll data, we empirically characterize the economic values and norms ... read more

Grievances or Skills? The Effect of Education on Youth Attitudes and Political Participation in Egypt and Tunisia

Miquel Pellicer , Ragui Assaad, , Caroline Krafft, and Colette Salemi and

There are two prominent accounts of the 2011 Arab Uprisings and the role of education ... read more

Middle East Development Journal – Volume 9, Issue 1, 2017

Articles in this issue: Out-of-pocket health spending and equity implications ... read more

The Effect of Patriarchal Culture on Women’s Labor Force Participation

Ishac Diwan and Irina Vartanova and

We show that measures of patriarchal culture are correlated with female labor force participation (FLFP) ... read more

Climate Change, Gender, Decision-Making Power, and Migration into the Saiss Region of Morocco

Dina Najjar , Boubaker Dhehibi, , Aden Aw-Hassan, and Abderrahim Bentaibi and

Studies on migration in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have so far ... read more

Egypt Must Strengthen Budget Institutions to Curb Mounting Budget Deficit

Mohamed Zaky

In a nutshell • Since the January 2011 popular revolution, the budget deficit in Egypt has ... read more

Sheltering the Poor against Catastrophic Healthcare Payments through Micro Insurance: Lessons from the African Experience

Ahmed Rashad and Mesbah Sharaf and

In a nutshell • Access to healthcare without the threat of financial ruin is a basic ... read more