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Kuwait’s Labor Market Dynamics during the Coronavirus Pandemic Policy Lessons from TED’s CEO Survey, Labor Force Supply and Household Survey 2020
The focused research conducted in this paper is part of a broader integrated policy-supportive research... Read More
Economic Consequences of COVID-19 Pandemic in MENA Region: Do Country Specific Characteristics Matter?
The coronavirus pandemic has undoubtedly brought about permanent changes to the world economies due to... Read More
The impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Economic Performance of Saudi Arabia
In this paper, we address two sets of questions. First, what are the real economic... Read More
The Double Whammy on the Kuwaiti Economy, Macroeconomic Effects of the Coronavirus and Oil Price Shocks
During the first quarter of 2020, the Kuwaiti economy began to receive two major concurrent... Read More
A Novel Supply-Side Input-Output Approach for A Quick Measurement and Decomposition of the Economywide Effects of Sectoral Shutdowns Against Covid-19 and an Application to the Turkish Economy
This paper describes a novel approach proposed for use in the assessment of economywide costs... Read More
Can Unconditional Cash Transfers Mitigate the Impact of Armed Conflict on Child Nutrition in Yemen?
The “ignored” civil war in Yemen has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent... Read More
Human Capital Index (HCI) – From Uncertainty to Robustness of Comparisons
In 2019, the World Bank adopted an index developed by Kraay (2018), the Human Capital... Read More
Immigration and Inter-Regional Job Mobility: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
We analyze the relationship between large-scale refugee inflows and the inter-regional job mobility of natives.... Read More
Armed Conflict and Household Source of Water
Using pairing of household level and armed conflict data with a generalized difference-indifferences approach, we... Read More