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MEDJ – ERF Middle East Development Journal: June 2026

No.

Vol. 18, No. 1

Publisher

ERF and Taylor and Francis

Date

June, 2026

The rapid expansion of electricity to rural Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution provides a unique opportunity to study the impact of infrastructure on women's empowerment. Using a large panel of villages... Pages 1-24   This study assesses the efficiency with which Moroccan public secondary schools transform resources into student achievement using PISA 2022 data. School-level technical efficiency is estimated through an output-oriented data envelopment analysis (DEA) model under variable returns to scale... Pages 25-50   This paper quantifies the gains in GDP (and GDP per capita) from closing gender employment gaps in the Middle East and North Africa. In the simplest model, the Gender Employment Gap Index, long-run GDP would be around 50 percent higher in the typical economy in the region if gender employment gaps were closed... Pages 51-74   This paper provides evidence of how positive and negative monetary policy surprises affect exchange rate pass-through (ERPT) for the CPI inflation rate and its 12 subcomponents by using the state space model with monthly data from January 2013 to December 2023 for Türkiye. The empirical findings from the CPI inflation rate... Pages 75-93  
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