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Economic Agenda for Post-Conflict Reconstruction
This paper focuses on the design and implementation of economic reforms, which are an integral... Read More
Education Gap and Youth: A Growing Challenge in The MENA Region
Education inequality has always been a concern for policy makers due to its long-term and... Read More
Bottom Incomes and the Measurement of Poverty and Inequality
Incomes in surveys suffer from various measurement problems, most notably in the tails of their... Read More
Fuel Poverty Exposure and Drivers: A Comparison of Vulnerability Landscape between Egypt and Jordan
This article, using ERF-LIS harmonized microdata, develops an empirical model to investigate the unexplored extent... Read More
Conflict, Peace-Building and Post-Conflict Reconstruction in Yemen
Violent conflicts are not new to Yemen. For centuries, the country has been plagued by... Read More
Migration and Inequalities Around the Mediterranean Sea
This paper aims to quantify the effects from migration on net income distributions, disentangling the... Read More
Income Inequality Effects on Real Exchange Rate: Do Differentials between Tails Matter?
Despite the distributive effects of government policies are linked to many macroeconomic variables, the effects... Read More
Macroeconomic Effects of Global Shocks in The GCC: Evidence from Saudi Arabia
We develop a quarterly macro-econometric model for the Saudi economy over the period 1981Q2-2018Q2 and... Read More
Conflict, Institutions and the Iraqi Economy, 2003- 2018
This study analyses the causes of the Iraqi economy’s difficulties in rebuilding, provision of basic... Read More