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Household and Contextual Indicators of Poverty in Tunisia: A Multilevel Analysis
This paper uses a multilevel logit model and a multilevel mixed linear model to simultaneously... Read More
Technical Efficiency and Stability to Shocks: A Comparison between Islamic Banks and Conventional Banks in MENA Region
The banking industry market is shared by conventional and Islamic Banks in MENA. These latter... Read More
On the Interaction between Trade Reforms and Labor Market Regulation: Evidence from the MENA Countries’ Labor Markets
Using a panel of MENA countries, this paper tries to examine the interaction between trade... Read More
Socio-political Attitudes across the World: To What Extent Are They Affected by One’s Religion, Its Importance, Majority Status and Relative Income?
This paper relates four aspects of an individual’s religion (the religion itself, its importance to... Read More
Late-Life Living Arrangements and Intergenerational Ties in Egypt: Elderly Socio-Economic Conditions from Labor Market Surveys
The aim of this paper is to analyze dynamics in the late-life living arrangements and... Read More
A Quarter Century of Changes in Labor Force Participation
This paper examines the changes in the determinants of labor force participation over time, using... Read More
Catastrophic and Impoverishing Effects of Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditure: New Evidence from Egypt
Conventional poverty estimates do not take into account out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments. OOP health payments... Read More
Economic Features of the Arab Spring
This paper analyzes the economic factors that lie behind the upheavals commonly known as the... Read More
Do Natural Resources Inhibit Transparency?
Using a new dataset on transparency across 177 countries from 1970 to 2010 and new... Read More