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Economic Growth in Egypt: Constraints and Determinants
Egypt accelerated its ongoing transition from a public sector dominated economy to a private sector... Read More
Measuring Hunger and Food Insecurity in Yemen
Yemen has become the first country in the MENA region to develop and field a... Read More
Population Aging, Labor Mobility and Economic Growth: Evidence From MENA and the Developed World
This paper examines the economic effects of aging trends using a two-period, two-region OLG model... Read More
How Flexible are Small Firms? An Analysis on the Determinants of Flexibility
Although the standard microeconomic analysis is usually based on the assumption of the existence of... Read More
Ownership Structure and Bank Performance: Evidence From The Middle East and North Africa
This paper makes a strong contribution to business literature by investigating the effects of organizational... Read More
Employment Effects of Productivity Improvement and Migration of Skills Workers
This paper studies the employment of unskilled labor effects on skilled labor productivity improvements, alternatively... Read More
Financial Sector Policy and Poverty Reduction in Sudan
This paper examines the structure and performance of the financial sector in Sudan and its... Read More
Maghreb Rural-Urban Migration: The Movement to Morocco’s Towns
Using data from national-level households survey, this study seeks to fill a gap in the... Read More