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Unconditional Cash-based Assistance to the Poor: What Do At-scale Programs Achieve?
We study the effects of large, temporary income changes on a wide range of economic... Read More
Is The Arab Spring A New Dividing Line? Experimental Evidence from Four Arab Countries
In the Arab World – as much as in other regions – historical events have... Read More
Testing the External Shock Narrative of the Conflict on Transition Towards Knowledge Economy in Syria
In the existing literature, several narratives explain the failure of low-income countries in catching-up with... Read More
Economic, Social, and Institutional Determinants of Internal Conflict in Fragile States
In this article, we use Poisson fixed-effect regressions (FEPR) with robust standard errors and instrumental... Read More
Corruption: A Brutal Enemy of Economic Diversification in MENA Oil Exporters
This paper aims, on the one hand, to investigate the impact of corruption on economic... Read More
How Does Political Risk Matter for Foreign Direct Investment into Arab Economies?
The present paper extends previous work by Burger et al. (2016) that has attempted to... Read More
Economic Resilience in Developing Countries: The Role of Democracy in the Face of External Shocks
This paper examines the role of democracy in strengthening the resilience of developing economies in... Read More
Civil Conflicts and Exchange Rate Misalignment: Evidence from MENA and Arab League Members
For more than a decade, civil conflicts intensity has been high in the Middle East... Read More
Does Maternal Education Curb Female Genital Mutilation? Evidence from a Natural Experiment in Egypt
In this study, we exploit a natural experiment, an education policy change reducing compulsory schooling... Read More