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Do Refugees Cause Crime?
The impact of immigration on crime continues to stir heated debates in public policy circles... Read More
Syrian Refugees, Public Attitudes, Policy Areas and Political Parties in Turkey: A Systematic Analysis of Twitter Data
The Syrian refugee problem has become an important topic in Turkish politics. Although public opinion... Read More
Developing Countries’ Access to International Capital Markets: What Constraint MENA?
The paper investigates at first factors that affect developing countries access to international capital markets.... Read More
Do Social Transfers Benefit Local Economic Development? The Case of Cash-for-Work Programmes in JordanDo Social Transfers Benefit Local Economic Development? The Case of Cash-for-Work Programmes in Jordan
This article investigates what effects cash-for-work (CfW) can have on local economic development (LED). It... Read More
Can Disaster Preparedness Change the Game? Mitigating the Health Impact of Disease Outbreaks
In times of epidemics and pandemics, depletion or diversion of health system resources from routine... Read More
COVID-19 Fiscal Support and Its Effectiveness
This paper uses a threshold-augmented Global VAR model to quantify the macro-economic effects of countries’... Read More
A Novel Supply-Side Input-Output Approach for A Quick Measurement and Decomposition of the Economywide Effects of Sectoral Shutdowns Against Covid-19 and an Application to the Turkish Economy
This paper describes a novel approach proposed for use in the assessment of economywide costs... Read More
Can Unconditional Cash Transfers Mitigate the Impact of Armed Conflict on Child Nutrition in Yemen?
The “ignored” civil war in Yemen has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent... Read More
Human Capital Index (HCI) – From Uncertainty to Robustness of Comparisons
In 2019, the World Bank adopted an index developed by Kraay (2018), the Human Capital... Read More