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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
Efficiency Assessment of Tunisian Public hospitals Using Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA)
In the recent past years, Tunisia pursued a national policy on health which was directed... Read More
Labor Market Activities of Syrian Refugees in Turkey
Drawing on data from a survey of 1,235 Syrian refugees, this article examines individual, cohort... Read More
Perceptions of Service Access in a Context of Marginalization: The Case of Young People in Informal Greater Cairo
In Egypt it is estimated that the majority of the country’s 40 million urban residents,... Read More
The Number and Characteristics of Syrians in Jordan: A Multi-Source Analysis
Jordan has experienced a substantial influx of refugees from Syria since 2011. The Jordanian government... Read More
Socioeconomic Status and the Changing Nature of School-to-Work Transitions in Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia
This paper examines the evolution of initial labor market outcomes across cohorts of school leavers... Read More
Identifying Global and National Output and Fiscal Policy ShocksUsing a GVAR
The paper contributes to the growing global VAR (GVAR) literature by showing how global and... Read More