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Investment Climate and Firms’ Exports in Egypt: When Politics Matter
The objective of this paper is to explore the nexus between exports performance and components... Read More
Out of Pocket Health Expenditures in Turkey in the Aftermath of the Reforms: Impact of Co-payments on Expenditures and Use of Health Services
In 2002 Turkey started to implement reforms in health care aiming to ease access and... Read More
Comparative Analysis of Higher Education Processes in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia: An Examination of Pedagogy, Accountability and Perceptions of Quality
In this paper, we present a comparison of several dimensions of higher education processes linked... Read More
Is There an Arab Variety of Capitalism?
This paper argues that capitalism in Arab low- to mid-income countries is organized in a... Read More
Correlates of Kin Marriage in Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia
Although kin marriage is widely practiced in the MENA, the rationales that are thought to... Read More
Crony Interlockers and The Centrality of Banks: The Network of Moroccan Listed Companies
In this paper, we study crony capitalism through the lens of Moroccan listed companies and... Read More
Out of Pocket Health Expenditure and Household Budget: Evidence from Arab Countries
This paper assesses the prevalence of out-of-pocket catastrophic health expenditure and pinpoints the factors associated... Read More
Anatolian Tigers and the Emergence of the Devout Bourgeoisie in the Turkish Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Analysis
It has widely been asserted that an important dimension of social dynamics that eventually carried... Read More
Moroccan Cronyism: Facts, Mechanisms and Impact
The purpose of this paper is to shed some light on Moroccan cronyism by studying... Read More