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De Facto Exchange Rate Policies in the MENA Region: Toward Deeper Cooperation
The adoption of exchange rate policy coordination and cooperation within a regional framework becomes a... Read More
General or Vocational? Evidence on School Choice, Returns, and “Sheep Skin” Effects from Egypt 1998
The debate on the relative benefits of upper secondary vocational education and of general education... Read More
Industrial Energy Policy: A Case Study of the Demand in Kuwait
The purpose of building the industrial energy demand model was to assess the impact of... Read More
Unemployment Rate in the United Arab Emirates: The Case of Abu Dhabi
Unemployment is a critical social and economic problem in both developed and developing countries. This... Read More
Productive Efficiency in Bahrain Economy
The main objective of this study is to measure and analyze one of the most... Read More
Transporting Turkish Exam Takers: A New Use For an Old Model
This paper argues that the transportation model of linear programming can be used to administer... Read More
Self-Rated Health and Primary Care Utilization: Is Selection into Healthcare Endogenously Determined?
This study assesses the causal effects of primary care utilization on subjective health status in... Read More
Export Concentration and Competition: Does the Firms Type Matter?
Trade liberalization enhances the competition in the market as it increases the quality and the... Read More
Marriage Outcomes and Women Empowerment After Marriage: A Three Countries Story
This paper provides a first step in the analysis of an understudied phenomenon: women’s bargaining... Read More