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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
Interest Rate Uncertainty and Macroeconomics in Turkey
Monetary policy plays a central role in stabilizing macroeconomic fluctuations. In addition to monetary policy,... Read More
Minimum and Living Wages in Jordan and Tunisia
Countries around the world are working to develop social protection floors to help reduce poverty.... Read More
Global Value Chain Participation, Institutional Quality and Current Account Imbalances in the MENA Region
This paper examines the relationship between the current account balance and participation in global value... Read More
Is There Any Impact of Public Spending on Bank Performance? Empirical Evidence from the MENA Region
This paper investigates the role of the level and composition of government spending as a... Read More
Freedom, Peace, and Justice: A New Paradigm for the Sudanese Health System After Sudan’s 2019 Uprising
This study demonstrates that health and its system are dynamic and interlinked with social and... Read More
The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Women’s Care Work and Employment in the Middle East and North Africa
The COVID-19 pandemic has been accompanied by widespread child care and school closures. Emerging evidence... Read More
Job Loss during COVID-19: Estimating the Poverty and Food Security Effects in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco
COVID-19 mobility restrictions have disrupted labor markets in Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco; thousands of workers... Read More