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Factors Influencing Informal Workers’ Participation in Health Insurance in Sudan: Evidence from Khartoum and Kassala States
This study investigates the factors that influence the participation of the informal workers in health... Read More
Is Oil Wealth Good for Private Sector Development?
When do autocratic rulers in oil-producing countries support private sector development? We argue that the... Read More
The Division of Ownership and Control in Listed Jordanian Firms
Firms listed on the Amman Stock Exchange (ASE) represent an important part of the economic... Read More
Firm Performance and Agglomeration Effects: Evidence from Tunisian Firm-level Data
Using Tunisian manufacturing data between 1998 and 2004 and by referring to multilevel approach, this... Read More
A New Dawn for MENA Firms: Service Trade Liberalization for More Competitive Exports
With the ongoing debates on the Doha Agenda, micro-level empirical evidence has emerged to highlight... Read More
English Skills, Labour Market Status and Earnings of Turkish Women
In this paper, we investigate the effect of the level of English skills on the... Read More
Time-Varying Casual Nexuses Between Remittances and Financial Development in Some MENA Countries
This paper examines the causality between remittances (REMs) and financial sector development (FD) in MENA... Read More
Unemployment and Violent Extremism: Evidence from Daesh Foreign Recruits
Transnational terrorist organizations such as the Islamic State (also known as Daesh) have shown an... Read More
Cronyism, firms’ Productivity and Informal Competition in Egypt
This paper* investigates the role of informal firms’ competition in determining the micro-level effect of... Read More