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A New Social Contract for Post-Conflict Middle East and North Africa
The civil wars in Libya, Syria and Yemen arose from the Arab Spring that, in... Read More
Gender and Sudan’s 2018/2019 Uprising: Experiences of Self-Employed Women Food and Beverage Sellers in Khartoum and Port Sudan and Women Farmers in South Kordofan
Women’s participation in Sudan’s 2018/2019 uprising has shed light on the social, economic, cultural, and... Read More
Post Covid-19 Firm-Level Government Support in Egypt: Uneven Allocation and Unequal Effects
The COVID-19 pandemic saw two sets of policy responses: lockdown to limit spread of the... Read More
The Role of Global Value Chains in Outsourcing Greenhouse Gas Emissions
This paper tracks the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions embedded in global value chains (GVCs) in... Read More
The Effects of Major Earthquakes on the Labor Market: Evidence from Turkiye
This study focuses on the impact of earthquakes on the labor market. We try to... Read More
Did Investor Sentiment and Herding Behavior in the MENA Region Change During Covid-19?
With the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic, financial markets have experienced instability and high... Read More
Survival Strategies Under Sanctions: Firm-Level Evidence from Iran
Given the importance of firm strategic management in time of crises, this study investigates Micro,... Read More
Feeling Blue Over the Economy, Will You Pull Down Your Face Mask? Economic and Psychological Well-Being and Preventive Health Behavior
This study investigates what predicts the uptake of preventive health behavior (PHB) during COVID-19, bringing... Read More
Financialization, Growth, and the Resource Curse: Evidence from the MENA Region
This study investigates whether the impacts of natural resource endowments (NREs) on growth are invariant... Read More