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Designing Institutions and Incentives in Hospitals: An Organization Economics Methodology
Recent seminal developments in organization economics, namely the decision rights approach, offer an opportunity to... Read More
Understanding and Combating Poverty: A Quest for Conceptualization, Measurment Indicators, Causes, and Empirical Methodologies
This paper reviews some selected conceptual literature on poverty issues and the various approaches to... Read More
Poverty Causes in Sudan: Some Economic and Political Aspects 1990-2000
Despite some increases in the GDP during the second half of the 1990s, Sudan remains... Read More
Assessment of FDI Incentives in Egypt
The paper tests the hypothesis that the FDI incentives scheme that Egypt chose to adopt... Read More
The Myth of Export-Led Growth
The relationship between openness and economic growth is rather complex. As Taylor (91) put it:... Read More
Arab Financial Sector Development and Institutions
Arab countries like other developing countries have embarked on financial sector reforms since the early... Read More
Private Tutoring Expenditures in Turkey
This is the first study on private tutoring in Turkey. Private tutoring especially for the... Read More
Determinants of Unemployment Duration For Men and Women
There are few studies on unemployment duration in developing countries. This is the first study... Read More