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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
First out, Last in Amid Covid-19: Employment Vulnerability of Youths in Arab Countries
This study estimates the impacts of the evolving COVID crisis on the trends in workers’... Read More
COVID-19…Who Will Wash the Dishes and Change the Diapers? Evidence from A Post COVID-19 Time Use Survey on Egypt
This paper contributes to the discussion on the restructure of workers’ time use -female workers... Read More
Challenges to Iraq’s Environment: Applying the Water-Energy-Food Nexus Framework
This paper utilizes research on Water-Energy-Food (WEF) nexus to study the relationships between Iraq’s water... Read More
The Dynamics of Protest Movements in Iraq: An Institutional Approach
In this paper, we apply institutional approaches to understand the economic and social contexts of... Read More
Lebanon’s Multifaceted Economic Crisis of October 2019: Causes, Repercussions: A Diagnosis
The paper analyzes Lebanon’s extraordinary economic breakdown of October 17, 2019 when the Central Bank... Read More
Cash Transfers and Food Vouchers for Syrian Refugees in Jordan: Do They Reach the Multi-Dimensionally Poor?
We examine in this paper the determinants of access to transfers in the context of... Read More
Cash Transfers, Household Food Insecurity and the Subjective Wellbeing of Youth in Jordan
Cash transfers have become an increasingly common feature of social protection systems in the Middle... Read More
The Impact of Covid-19 on MENA Labor Markets: A Gendered Analysis from Egypt, Tunisia, Morocco and Jordan
This paper relies on a gendered lens to asses if the COVID-19 health crisis has... Read More