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Digital Financial Inclusion and Socioeconomic Sustainability in Saudi...

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1783

Topic

O3. Technological Change, Research and Development, Intellectual Property Rights

G2. Financial Institutions and Services

I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

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The Effect of International Sanctions on the Size...

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1782

Topic

P3. Socialist Institutions and Their Transitions

I3. Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty

F1. Trade

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Tracing the COVID-19 Footprint: A Sectoral Interrupted Time...

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and... Read More

Date

July, 2025

No.

1781

Topic

E4. Money and Interest Rates

Q4. Energy

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Bridging Education and Fertility: Unraveling the Role of...

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and... Read More

Date

June, 2025

No.

1780

Topic

I14 Health and Inequality

J1. Demographic Economics

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Domestic and External Determinants of Inflation: An Empirical...

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and... Read More

Date

June, 2025

No.

1779

Topic

E3. Prices, Business Fluctuations, and Cycles

E5. Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit

E6. Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook

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Public Versus Private Sector Wage Gap in Egypt: Evidence from Quantile Regression on Panel Data

This paper considers the public and private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their... Read More

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Social Security Entitlement in Maghreb Countries: Who is Excluded? Who is not Interested?

The issue of whether informal jobs are chosen voluntarily by workers or as a strategy... Read More

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Gender Discrimination in the Tunisian Labor Market: The Youth Crisis

This paper combines micro-level and macro-level approaches into a unified empirical design to understand the... Read More

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Measuring Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Tunisia: Dual cut-off method and Fuzzy Sets approach

The aim of this paper is to measure the vulnerability of multidimensional poverty in Tunisia.... Read More

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Education Interrupted: Enrollment, Attainment, and Dropout of Syrian Refugees in Jordan

Education is a key means to integrate refugee populations into their host countries, as well... Read More

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Growth and Environmental Degradation in MENA Countries: Methodological Issues and Empirical Evidence

A large number of studies on the validity of the environmental Kuznets curve for MENA... Read More

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The Structure of Employment and Job Creation in Jordan: 2010-2016

In this paper, we analyze the structure of employment and job creation in Jordan over... Read More

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Consumer Preferences and Market Structure in Credit Card Markets: Evidence from Turkey

Using a discrete choice random utility model and unique data from a nationwide consumer survey,... Read More

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The Promise and Peril of Youth Entrepreneurship in MENA

Entrepreneurship is promoted by government policies and international agencies as a solution to high rates... Read More

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