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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
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