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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: Vulnerability to Multidimensional Poverty in Algeria and Tunisia Using the Counting Based Approach and Bayesian Networks Classifiers

Valérie Berenger

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

Caroline Krafft and Heather Moylan

2023: Robots, Employment and Wages: Evidence from Turkish Labor Markets

Ugur Aytun, Yilmaz Kilicaslan, Oytun Mecik and Umit Yapici

2023: Finance-Growth Nexus in Time of Covid-19 Lockdown: Case of Iranian MSMES

Iman Cheratian and Saleh Goltabar

2023: False Negatives: Earnings Underreporting, Tax Overreporting in Surveys Worldwide

Vladimir Hlasny

2023: Do Capital Flows Cause (De)-Industrialization?

Fatma Tasdemir

2023: Testing of Persistence in Firm Entry by Size, Sector, and Location: Case of Iran

Iman Cheratian and Saleh Goltabar

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: State-Society Relations and Sustainable Industrial Growth: The Case of Post-Revolution Tunisia

Mohamed Sabry

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 Ozmen and Belgi Turan

2023: The Great Lockdown and the Small Business: Impact, Channels and Adaptation to the Covid Pandemic

Minh-Phuong Le, Lisa Chauvet and Mohamed Ali Marouani

2023: Oil Exporting Countries and Economic Diversification: The Role of Monetary and Fiscal Policies

Mohamed Benkhodja, Xiaofei Ma and Tovonony Razafindrabe

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

Ghada Barsoum

2023: The Effects of Trade Participation on Labor Productivity, Wages and Female Employment: Evidence from Egyptian Manufacturing Firms

Yasmine Kamal

2023: They Still Got the Power: The Enduring Connections between Lebanon’s Banking Sector and the Ruling Class

Jad Chaaban, Jonathan Cole, Nizar Ghanem and Sami Halabi

2023: The Impact of Syrian Refugees on the Overeducation of Natives: Evidence from Turkish Labor Markets

Ugur Aytun and Seyit Cilasun

2023: Breaking Barriers: Investigating the Effects of 100% Foreign Ownership on Business Entry in Dubai

Ahmed Rashad

2023: Preferences and the Puzzle of Female Labor Force Participation

Mahdi Majbouri

2023: Inflation Inequality in Egypt Amid the Russia–Ukraine War

Shireen Alazzawi and Vladimir Hlasny

2023: Local State Capacity and Economic Development of Regions

Yusuf Akgunduz, Abdurrahman Aydemir, Abdurrahman Aydemir, Yusuf Bagir and Yavuz Hacihasanoglu

2023: GVC and Innovation: Evidence from MENA Firm-Level Data

Yasmine Eissa and Chahir Zaki

2023: Is the Moroccan Fiscal System Progressive? A Shapley Decomposition

Touhami Abdelkhalek and Dorothee Boccanfuso

2023: Intra-Household Bargaining, Resource Allocation and Cost of Gender-Based Violence in Egypt: The Role of Asset Ownership and Gender Role Attitudes

Eleftherios Giovanis and Oznur Ozdamar

2023: Do Educational Mismatches Influence Job Satisfaction and On-The-Job Search in Algeria?

Aysit Tansel and Moundir Lassassi

2023: Logistics Performance and Environmental Degradation: The Case of MENA Countries

Seda Özçelik and Ünal Töngür

2023: Discretion and Public Procurement Outcomes

Bernard Hoekman and Bedri Tas

2023: Is Tunisia’s Democracy on Its Deathbed? Social Capital, Economic Insecurity, Middle Class and Attitudes Toward Democracy

Riadh Ben Jelili

2023: Sudan’s economy, society, and labor market have experienced a large number of shocks since Sudan’s last household survey in 2014/15. Pre-existing political and economic challenges contributed to the revolution in 2018 and substantial political change in 2019, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, and further political and economic turmoil in 2021-2022. The new Sudan Labor Market Panel Survey 2022 provides an important opportunity to understand labor market dynamics in Sudan during this turbulent period. Both contemporaneous and retrospective data allow the creation and analysis of monthly statuses and transitions throughout the 2015-2021 period. The paper specifically examines the dynamics of job finding and entry into the labor market, unemployment durations, and employment exits. The results show the increased difficulties in entering employment as Sudan was beset by shocks

Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft and Sarah Wahby

2023: Morocco — Beyond Debt: Sustainable Pathways to Higher Growth

Abdelaaziz Ali, Fatima Mengoub, Mahmoud Arbouch, Fahd Azaroual, Oumayma Bourhriba, Youssef El Jai and Badr Mandri

2023: Stabilization and Adjustment in MENA: The Case of Egypt

Abla Abdel Latif, Sahar Aboud, Rama Said, Racha Seif and Ahmed Dawoud

2023: Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Stabilization and Growth Agenda for Sudan

Ibrahim Elbadawi, Magdi Amin, Amir Elobaid, Alzaki Alhelo, Abdelrahman Osman and Kabbashi Suliman

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: Working Conditions in the Paid Care Economy in Egypt: Improvement or Deterioration?

Maye Ehab and Caroline Krafft

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: The Past and the Future Trade Patterns of the MENA Region: The Pursuit of Growth

Pinar Tat, Abdullah Altun and Halit Yanikkaya

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: Lebanon at Risk: The Uncertain Road from A Debt Overhang to A New Growth Path

Ishac Diwan and Henri Chaoul

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: Demand Volatility and Firm Export Margins: Evidence from Egypt

Yasmine Kamal

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