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2024: GVCs and Labor Market Outcomes:Evidence from MENA

Yasmine Eissa

2024: A Geospatial Analysis of Food Insecurity Among Refugee Households in Lebanon Using Machine Learning Techniques

Angela Lyons, Josephine Kass-Hanna, Deepika Pingali, Aiman Soliman, David Zhu, Yifang Zhang and Alejandro Castano

2024: Female Headship and Poverty in The Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on A New Typology

Shireen AlAzzawi, Hai-Anh Dang, Vladimir Hlasny, Kseniya Abanokova and Jere Behrman

2024: When Active Labor Market Policies Increase Unemployment: An Assessment of The Impact of The Employment Agencies Program in Algeria

Ali Souag and Ragui Assaad

2024: Does The Environment Matter? Climate Change, Transboundary Effects, Economic Growth and Conflicts

Eleftherios Giovanis and Öznur Özdamar

2024: The Prospects of The Green Transition in The Arab Region: State-Society Actors, Power Relations, Interests and Coordination

Mohamed Sabry

2024: The Incidence and Wage Penalty of Overqualification: The Case of Egypt

Ali Fakih and Zeina Lizzaik

2024: Does The Trillion-Dollar Cost of Sanctions Matter for Iranian Economic Development?

Reza Zamani

2024: Revisiting Economic Diversification: A Cross-Country Analysis

Hoda Assem, Roberta Gatti and Daniel Lederman

2024: Long Shadows of the Walking Dead on Economic Activity

N. Nergiz Dincer, Pelin Pektekin and Ayça Koru

2024: From Flow to Fortune? The Economic Impacts of Agricultural Dams

Hans Koster, Saeed Tajrishy, Jos Ommeren and Mohammad Vesal

2024: Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey

Isabelle Chort, Rozenn Hotte and Karine Marazyan

2024: Traders’ War Against Trade Walls: Evidence from Import Prohibition in Iran

Kowsar Yousefi and Samad Alaamati

2024: Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on Credit Rationing for Tunisian SMEs: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Analysis

Wided Mattoussi, Ameny Ben Sayari and Younes Ben Zaied

2024: To Leave or Not to Leave: The Role of Aspirations and Networks in Shaping Young Women’s Migration Decisions in Lebanon

Karine Moukaddem, Marion Dovis, Josephine Kass-Hanna, Léa Bou Khater and Eva Raiber

2024: The Impact of Independent Media on Political Mobilization during the Arab Spring

Laura Angelini, Luisito Bertinelli, Rana Cömertpay and Jean-François Maystadt

2024: Financial Inclusion and Threshold Effects in Carbon Emissions

Nidhaleddine Ben Cheikh and Christophe Rault

2024: The Impacts of Matching Contributions on Retirement Savings: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment

Sadettin Citci and Halit Yanikkaya

2024: The Trade Off Child Between Quantity and Child Quality: Testing Becker’s Q-Q Model and Long-Terms Effects on Women Using Data from Egypt

Hosam Ibrahim

2024: A Comprehensive Analysis of The Dynamic Space-Time Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in Egypt

Amira Elayouty and Hala Abou-Ali

2024: Unravelling The Nexus between Exchange Rate Undervaluation and Global Value Chain Participation

Mariz Abdou, Ibrahim Elbadawi, Patrick Plane and Chahir Zaki

2024: Sudan's Future between Catastrophic Conflict and Peaceful Renaissance Growth Trajectories: Long-term Growth Model Simulations

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Federico Fiuratti

2024: Education in Sudan: Disparities in Enrollment, Attainment and Quality

Ebaidalla Ebaidalla and Tarig Rakhy

2024: Determinants of Persistently High Fertility in Sudan

Maia Sieverding

2024: The Lives and Livelihoods of the Displaced in Sudan: Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees

Ragui Assaad, Jackline Wahba and Caroline Krafft

2024: Gender, Work, and Time Use in the Context of a Low-Income Agrarian Economy: The Case of Sudan

Ragui Assaad, Vishal Jamkar and Caroline Krafft

2024: The Causal Impact of Education on Mental Health and Explanatory Mechanisms

Aysun Aygün

2024: Historical and Future Global Emissions Reductions due to Qatar’s LNG Exports

Muez Ali, Abdalftah Hamid, Gonzalo de la Mata and Alex Amato

2023: Households’ Food Insecurity in the Era of Covid-19: Application on MENA Countries

Antoine Castet and Racha Ramadan

2023: Technological Innovation and Climate Change Mitigation: Effects and Transmission ChannelsAbstract: The main objective of our study is to examine the relationship between technological innovation and environmental sustainability in the case of MENA countries during the period 1990 to 2019. In order to explicitly integrate the possible cross-sectional dependencies problem, we use panel cointegration methods. The outcome indicates the rejection of the EKC hypothesis because these countries have not yet reached the threshold of GDP. Yet, financial development and technological innovation do not have direct effects on CO2 emissions. Also, foreign direct investment and energy consumption have negative impacts on environmental quality. However, the interaction between technological innovation on the one hand and energy consumption, financial development, trade, and foreign direct investment on the other hand can reduce CO2 emissions. Consequently, policymakers should not only develop financial and technological systems but also develop more technological goods traded and enhance renewable energy use

Fethi Amri

2023: Food Insecurity: The Role of Income Instability and Social Transfers in Tunisia During Covid-19

Hajer Habib and Amal Jmaii

2023: Women’s Economic Empowerment in Sudan: Assets and Agency

Caroline Krafft and Heather Moylan

2023: Unravelling the Puzzle of Low Female Labor Force Participation in Iran

Massoud Karshenas and Valentine Moghadam

2023: Internet and Food Production: Panel Data Evidence from North African Countries

Abdelhadi Benghalem, Samir Maliki and Ouieme Sour

2023: Informal Sector, Competition and Labor Productivity in Africa: Evidence from Firm-Level Data

Sara Zouiri

2023: Assessing the Effectiveness of the Fiscal-Monetary Policy Mix: Evidence from Morocco, Egypt and Saudi Arabia

Younes El Khattab, Rachida El Yamani and Ahmed Hefnaoui

2023: Financial Development, Corruption and Shadow Economy:Evidence from MENA Countries

Houda Haffoudhi and Brahim Guizani

2023: Class Grievances: The Arab Uprisings and Beyond

Jennifer C. Olmsted and Bassam Yousif

2023: Does Accelerating the Energy Transition Affect Fiscal Sustainability in GCC Countries?

Assil El Mahmah

2023: The Role of Public Employment and Wage Policy in the Dynamic of Earnings Inequality: The Tunisian Perspective

Mohamed Marouani and Minh Le

2023: Two Birds, One Stone: Minimum Wage and Child Labor

Utku Özmen and Belgi Turan

2023: A No Woman’s Place: Employers’ Discrimination and Hiring Challenges in Less Feminized Sectors in Egypt

Ghada Barsoum

2023: When Formality Is Costly and Informality Is Legal: Social Insurance Design Woes at A Time of Economic Crises

Irene Selwaness and Ghada Barsoum

2023: Social Insurance from A Regional Perspective: Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia

Zina Nimeh, Tamara Kool and Guido Heins

2023: Trade, Food Security and the War in Ukraine: The Cases of Egypt and Sudan

Chahir Zaki, Alzaki Alhelo and Kabbashi Suliman

2023: Why is Social Insurance Coverage Declining in Egypt? A Decomposition Analysis

Ragui Assaad and Sarah Wahby

2023: Choosing Exchange Regimes in Oil-Exporting Countries:Frankel’s Proposal (CCB) versus the Actual Regime:The Case of Algeria (In Arabic)

Abderazak Madouri and Hacene Kebir

2023: The Dynamics of Social Insurance in Egypt

Caroline Krafft and Cyrine Hannafi

2023: A Machine Learning Approach to Targeting Humanitarian Assistance Among Forcibly Displaced Populations

Angela Lyons, Alejandro Castano, Josephine Kass-Hanna, Yifang Zhang and Aiman Soliman

2023: Public Debt, Growth, and Stabilization in Tunisia: A New Narrative for A Structural Reform Agenda

Leila Baghdadi and Moez Labidi

2023: The Impact of Maternal Education on Early Childhood Development: The Case of Turkey

Deniz Karaoglan, Serap Sagir, Meltem Dayioglu and Dürdane Saraçoglu

2023: Digitalization and the UAE Economy: A New Driver of Sustainable Development

Jamel Zarrouk

2023: Assessing the Sustainability of Jordan’s Public Debt: The Importance of Reviving the Private Sector and Improving Social Outcomes

Zafiris Tzannatos and Ibrahim Saif

2023: The Structure of the Labor Force and Employment in Sudan

Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad, Adriana Mendosa and Isabel Honzay

2023: Introducing the Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022

Caroline Krafft, Ragui Assaad and Ruby Cheung

2023: Returns to Education in the Marriage Market: Bride Price and School Reform in Egypt

Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi and Roberta Gatti

2023: The Sudan Syndrome: State-Society Contests and The Future of Democracy After The December 2018 Revolution

Ibrahim Elbadawi and Alzaki Alhelo

2023: Deindustrialization and Trade Openness: The Tunisian Case

Rania Mechergui and Rim Mouelhi

2023: State-Business Relations in Sudan: The Prospects for A Dynamic Private Sector

Kabbashi Suliman

2023: Estimating the Causal Relationship between External Debt and Inflation in Jordan: Evidence from an ARDL and Toda-Yamamoto Approaches

Mesbah Sharaf, Abdelhalem Shahen and Badr Binzaid

2023: The Effects of Exchange Rate Changes on Sudanese Output: An Asymmetric Analysis using the NARDL Model

Mesbah Sharaf and Abdelhalem Shahen

2023: Determinants of Adoption of Online Commercial Activities by Moroccan Firms

Adel Ben Youssef

2023: Digitalization and Disruptive Technologies in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) and Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) Regions

Ahmed Ghoneim and Dina Mandour

2023: Digitalization and Firm Performance in The Middle East and North Africa: Case Studies of Jordan, Morocco, and Egypt

Nong Zhu and Xubei Luo

2023: Does Digitalization Matter? Evidence from Egyptian and Jordanian Firms

Chahir Zaki

2023: Which Firms Are More Digitized? A Comparative Study between Egypt and Jordan

Chahir Zaki

2023: Crony Capitalism Through the “Developmental State” Model of Ethiopia: An Identification of its Main Manifestations

Alemayehu Geda

2023: Political Islam and Crony Capitalism in Sudan: A Case Study of “Munazzamat Al-Dawa Al-Islamiyya”

Mohammed Ali and Ebaidalla Ebaidalla

2023: From Rags to Riches to Rags Again: Deconstructing the Narratives of Crony Capitalism and Neoliberal Ideology Through the Example of Algeria

Idriss Hadj Nacer

2023: A Model of Political Uprisings

Raimundo Soto and Samir Makdisi

2023: Crises, Uncertainty, and Policy Choice: Theory and Evidence from Lebanon

Mounir Mahmalat

2023: On Trade Policy and Workers’ Transition between the Formal and Informal Sectors: An Application to the MENA Region in the Time of Covid-19

Fida Karam and Chahir Zaki

2023: Investigating the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks on Growth and Inflation in Egypt: Asymmetry and the Long-term Impact

Nadeen Omar

2023: Deposit Dollarization in Turkey: A Rolling Window Analysis

A. Yasemin Yalta and A. Talha Yalta

2023: Thinking Politically About Money: The Changing Role of Political Finance in The Political (Un-)Settlements in Ethiopia and Sudan

Aditya Sarkar and Alex de Waal