Middle East Development Journal
2009 - 2025
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Volume 17, issue 1, 2025
- Exports to jobs: Morocco’s trade patterns and local labor market outcomes pp. 1-34

- Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Raymond Robertson and Daniela Ruiz Zárate
- The climate factor in Iranian migration patterns pp. 35-57

- Mehdi Shiva and Hassan Molana
- Out of pocket costs and financial hardships among breast cancer patients in Egypt: a pilot study pp. 58-72

- Mennatollah Nagy Sharkawy, Hanan S. Zaky, Mahmoud Selim and Loay Kassem
- The gendered impact of migrants’ remittances on Morocco’s labour market: empirical evidence using propensity score matching pp. 73-101

- Oussama Zennati
- Urban poverty in Saudi Arabia pp. 102-128

- Miriam Al Lily and Hermann Waibel
- An economic analysis of the impact of labor productivity on the dynamics of total wages in Iraq for the period 1994–2021 pp. 129-137

- Rafid F. Mohammed
- Macroeconomic shocks and stock market efficiency: a panel VAR study of Islamic and conventional stocks in Iran pp. 138-157

- Taghi Ebrahimi Salari, Hadi Esmaeilpour Moghadam, Sepehr Maghsoudi, Sajjad Namvar and Amir Reza Sabri
- Loans versus bonds: do GCC firms benefit from going public? pp. 158-168

- Nawaf Almaskati
- The digital double bind pp. 169-172

- Rodrigo Fuentes
Volume 16, issue 2, 2024
- Firm heterogeneity and export behavior: evidence from Tunisia pp. 147-163

- Leila Baghdadi and Peter Glick
- Fuel and electricity pricing and subsidies in the GCC states: recent developments pp. 164-195

- Jon Strand
- COVID-19 policy responses, social norms, and behavior change in MENA pp. 196-219

- Amira El-Shal and Eman Moustafa
- Resistance is simple, resilience is complex: sanctions and the composition of Iranian trade pp. 220-238

- Esfandyar Batmanghelidj
- Does less finance harm economic growth as well? A nonlinear smooth transition model (STAR) perspective pp. 239-262

- Zakaria Elouaourti and Aomar Ibourk
- The determinants of excess liquidity in the Algerian banking system pp. 263-279

- Amirouche Chelghoum, Lahlou Boukhari and Yahia Djafferi
Volume 16, issue 1, 2024
- Oil dependency and happiness in net oil-exporting countries: is it a curse or blessing? pp. 1-26

- Ly Slesman
- School performance and child paid work: evidence from West Bank schools pp. 27-54

- Sameh Hallaq and Ayman Khalifah
- Capital flight and the real exchange rate: evidence from resource scarce MENA countries pp. 55-73

- A. Yasemin Yalta and A. Talha Yalta
- Do non-natives catch-up with the natives in terms of earnings in Jordan? New evidence from a distributional analysis pp. 74-97

- Hatem Jemmali and Rabeh Morrar
- Are asset quality weaknesses holding back bank lending? Evidence from MENA region pp. 98-116

- Saibal Ghosh
- Labor market transitions in Egypt post-Arab Spring pp. 117-141

- Jingyuan Deng, Nelly Elmallakh, Luca Flabbi and Roberta Gatti
- How sanctions work. Iran and the impact of economic warfare pp. 142-145

- José Díaz-Bahamonde
Volume 15, issue 2, 2023
- The impact of sanctions on household welfare and employment in Iran pp. 189-221

- Djavad Salehi-Isfahani
- COVID-19 shock 2020: impact on foreign and Kuwaiti workers and contrasts with employment, earnings and consumption during normal times pp. 222-240

- Ahmad Alawadhi, Mohammad Alali, Shaikha Al-Fulaij, Weam Behbahani, Marwa Al-Musallam and Sulayman Al-Qudsi
- An empirical investigation of COVID-19 impact on the finance and human resources of logistics and supply chain companies in Oman pp. 241-260

- Ashraf Mishrif and Asharul Khan
- Institutional quality and inward FDI: empirical evidence from GCC economies pp. 261-290

- Andrzej Cieślik and Sarhad Hamza
- How does political risk matter for foreign direct investment into Arab economies? pp. 291-310

- Riadh Ben Jelili
- The tale of three public debt crises in Tunisia, Egypt, and the Ottoman Empire in the 1860s and 1870s pp. 311-328

- Mustapha Kamel Nabli
- Tunisia’s economic development: why better than most in the Middle East but not East Asia authors: Mustapha K. Nabli and Jeffrey B. Nugent pp. 329-333

- Roberto Zagha
Volume 15, issue 1, 2023
- Does the structure of state budget matter for Egypt’s fiscal deficit? An empirical investigation using an ARDL bounds testing approach pp. 1-25

- Israa A. El Husseiny
- Globalization and obesity in the GCC countries pp. 26-49

- Zouheir El-Sahli
- The impact of sand and dust storms on agriculture in Iraq pp. 50-65

- Hayatullah Ahmadzai
- On the unfinished business of stabilization programs: a CGE model of Egypt pp. 66-100

- City Eldeep and Chahir Zaki
- Who can work from home in MENA? pp. 101-129

- Shireen AlAzzawi
- Do labor markets and the social contract increase female youth unemployment in the GCC countries? pp. 130-150

- Wasseem Mina
- Overeducation wage penalty for university graduates: evidence from the MENA region using machine learning techniques pp. 151-188

- Obbey A. Elamin
Volume 14, issue 2, 2022
- Syrian refugees to Europe: are they different from the non-Syrians? pp. 199-218

- Ruya Karci, Nukhet Dogan and M. Hakan Berument
- Macroeconomic effects of global shocks in the GCC: evidence from Saudi Arabia pp. 219-239

- Kamiar Mohaddes, Mehdi Raissi and Niranjan Sarangi
- Economic growth and sustainability of public finances: evidence from Morocco pp. 240-263

- Karim Belcaid
- Pension reform and unemployment outcomes pp. 264-281

- Mouna Ben Othman and Mohamed Marouani
- Women’s employment exits in Egypt: the roles of marriage, children, job characteristics, and women’s empowerment pp. 282-302

- Maye Ehab
- Chronic illnesses and labor market participation in the Arab countries: evidence from Egypt and Tunisia pp. 303-322

- Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla and Mohammed E. Mustafa Ali
- Fintech market in Iran: an analysis of Fintech ecosystem and business models pp. 323-336

- Maryam Mirzaei
- Lending relationship, small businesses and NPLs in Tunisia pp. 337-352

- Fredj Fhima, Ridha Nouira and Philippe Adair
Volume 14, issue 1, 2022
- Beware of the echo: the evolution of Egypt’s population and labor force from 2000 to 2050 pp. 1-31

- Ragui Assaad
- Fiscal policy in times of high debt: tale of Lebanon pp. 32-42

- Nasser Badra
- Disentangling the impact of trade barriers on wages: evidence from the MENA region pp. 43-69

- Nora Aboushady, Yasmine Kamal and Chahir Zaki
- Monetary policy in times of uncertainties: evidence from Tunisia, Egypt and Morocco pp. 70-94

- Brahim Guizani and Agata Wierzbowska
- Microeconomic analysis of private returns to education in Egypt: an instrumental variable quantile regression approach pp. 95-117

- Shereen Nosier, Aya El-Karamani and Reham Salah
- Credit bureaus and financial constraints do corruption matter? pp. 118-132

- Mohamed Sami Ben Ali and Boubacar Siddy Diallo
- The relationship between banks’ credit quality, credit growth and social capital: evidence from Turkish banking sector pp. 133-170

- Abdulmuttalip Pilatin and Hasan Ayaydin
- Energy as a substitute for factors of production: case study of an oil rich economy pp. 171-198

- Kowsar Yousefi and Salman Farajnia
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