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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
Does Public Health Insurance Increase Maternal Health Care Utilization in Egypt
We assess the impact of health insurance on the utilization of maternal health care services... Read More
Public Value Perspective for Gender Budgeting: Evidence from Egypt
This paper proposes a conceptual framework that relates failure of progressing in gender equality to... Read More
The Nexus Between Informal Credit and Informal Labor for Micro and Small Enterprises in Egypt: Sources of Finance and Enterprises Informality: Evidence from MSE Surveys in Two Governorates
As a result of the economic meltdown in 2008, the hardest hit sector of the... Read More
Private Banking and Crony Capitalism in Egypt
In Egypt, the bulk of bank loans during 2003-2010 went to politically connected firms. At... Read More
National Oil Companies in the Middle East and North Africa: Remaining Relevant in a Changing World
This paper applies a practitioner’s analytical perspective to assessing the contractual arrangements governing oil and... Read More
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