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Do ICTS Reduce Youth Unemployment in MENA Countries?
Abstract This paper examines the impact of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) on youth unemployment... Read More
Can Banks Lead the Economic Recovery of the Arab Spring?
We analyze the role of banks in Bahrain, Egypt, Libya, Tunisia, and Yemen, pre-and post-revolution,... Read More
Competitive Real Exchange Rates Are Good for the Poor: Evidence from Egyptian Household Surveys
This paper develops a theoretical model that allows for assessing the poverty impact of the... Read More
Budgetary Institutions, Fiscal Policy, and Economic Growth: The Case of Saudi Arabia
This paper investigates budgetary and fiscal institutions in Saudi Arabia during the period 1969-2014. In... Read More
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