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Financial Leasing in MENA Region: An Analysis of Financial, Legal and Institutional Aspects
This paper assesses the financial leasing industry and its role in enhancing financial intermediation in... Read More
Equity and Policy Effectiveness with Imperfect Targeting
We propose a general approach that jointly integrates horizontal and vertical equity criteria in the... Read More
Foreign Exchange Regimes, The Real Exchange Rate and Current Account Sustainability: The Case of Turkey
During the last two and half decades Turkey has suffered from three foreign exchange crises... Read More
Economic Growth in Egypt: Constraints and Determinants
Egypt accelerated its ongoing transition from a public sector dominated economy to a private sector... Read More
Measuring Hunger and Food Insecurity in Yemen
Yemen has become the first country in the MENA region to develop and field a... Read More
Population Aging, Labor Mobility and Economic Growth: Evidence From MENA and the Developed World
This paper examines the economic effects of aging trends using a two-period, two-region OLG model... Read More
How Flexible are Small Firms? An Analysis on the Determinants of Flexibility
Although the standard microeconomic analysis is usually based on the assumption of the existence of... Read More