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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
Measuring the Economic Cost of Conflict in Afflicted Arab Countries
The goal of this paper is to estimate the economic cost of conflict in selected... Read More
Geographical Exposure to Conflicts and Firm Performance: Evidence from The MENA Region
This paper assesses the impact of insecurity generated by conflicts on firm performance in the... Read More
The Impact of Cash Transfers on Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon
This paper was commissioned and funded by the Economic Research Forum. The paper builds on... Read More