Report NEP-ARA-2025-01-20

This is the archive for NEP-ARA, a report on new working papers in the area of MENA - Middle East and North Africa. Paul Makdissi issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Reza Zamani, 2024, "Does The Trillion-Dollar Cost of Sanctions Matter for Iranian Economic Development?," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1722, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Yasmine Eissa, 2024, "GVCs and Labor Market Outcomes:Evidence from MENA," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1730, Sep, revised 20 Sep 2024.
• Hosam Ibrahim, 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," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1711, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Isabelle Chort & Rozenn Hotte & Karine Marazyan, 2024, "Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1718, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Laura Angelini & Luisito Bertinelli & Rana Cömertpay & Jean-François Maystadt, 2024, "The Impact of Independent Media on Political Mobilization during the Arab Spring," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1714, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Shireen AlAzzawi & Hai-Anh Dang & Vladimir Hlasny & Kseniya Abanokova & Jere Behrman, 2024, "Female Headship and Poverty in The Arab Region: Analysis of Trends and Dynamics Based on A New Typology," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1727, Sep, revised 20 Sep 2024.
• Ali Fakih & Zeina Lizzaik, 2024, "The Incidence and Wage Penalty of Overqualification: The Case of Egypt," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1723, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Ragui Assaad & Jackline Wahba & Caroline Krafft, 2024, "The Lives and Livelihoods of the Displaced in Sudan: Internally Displaced Persons and Refugees," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1705, May, revised 20 May 2024.
• Eleftherios Giovanis & Öznur Özdamar, 2024, "Does The Environment Matter? Climate Change, Transboundary Effects, Economic Growth and Conflicts," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1725, Sep, revised 20 Sep 2024.
• Mohammad Reza Farzanegan & Jerg Gutmann, 2024, "International Sanctions and Internal Conflict: The Case of Iran," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 11578.
• Sadettin Haluk Citci & Halit Yanikkaya, 2024, "The Impacts of Matching Contributions on Retirement Savings: Evidence from a Quasi-Natural Experiment," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1712, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla & Tarig Alhaj Rakhy, 2024, "Education in Sudan: Disparities in Enrollment, Attainment and Quality," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1707, May, revised 20 May 2024.
• Wided Mattoussi & Ameny Ben Sayari & Younes Ben Zaied, 2024, "Evaluating the Impact of COVID-19 on Credit Rationing for Tunisian SMEs: A Conditional Difference-in-Differences Analysis," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1716, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Kowsar Yousefi & Samad Alaamati, 2024, "Traders’ War Against Trade Walls: Evidence from Import Prohibition in Iran," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1717, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Maia Sieverding, 2024, "Determinants of Persistently High Fertility in Sudan," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1706, May, revised 20 May 2024.
• Ragui Assaad & Vishal Jamkar & Caroline Krafft, 2024, "Gender, Work, and Time Use in the Context of a Low-Income Agrarian Economy: The Case of Sudan," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1704, Jan, revised 20 Jan 2024.
• Ibrahim Elbadawi & Federico Fiuratti, 2024, "Sudan's Future between Catastrophic Conflict and Peaceful Renaissance Growth Trajectories: Long-term Growth Model Simulations," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1708, Jun, revised 20 Jun 2024.
• Angela C. Lyons & Josephine Kass-Hanna & Deepika Pingali & Aiman Soliman & David Zhu & Yifang Zhang & Alejandro Montoya Castano, 2024, "A Geospatial Analysis of Food Insecurity Among Refugee Households in Lebanon Using Machine Learning Techniques," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1729, Sep, revised 20 Sep 2024.
• Assouad, Lydia, 2023, "Rethinking the Lebanese economic miracle: the extreme concentration of income and wealth in Lebanon, 2005–2014," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 117680, Mar.
• Hans R.A. Koster & Saeed Tajrishy & Jos van Ommeren & Mohammad Vesal, 2024, "From Flow to Fortune? The Economic Impacts of Agricultural Dams," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1719, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Amira Elayouty & Hala Abou-Ali, 2024, "A Comprehensive Analysis of The Dynamic Space-Time Impacts of Climate Change on Poverty in Egypt," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1710, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• International Monetary Fund, 2024, "Morocco: Second Review Under The Arrangement Under the Resilience and Sustainability Facility-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Morocco," IMF Staff Country Reports, International Monetary Fund, number 2024/324, Nov.
• N. Nergiz Dincer & Pelin Pektekin & Ayça Tekin-Koru, 2024, "Long Shadows of the Walking Dead on Economic Activity," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1720, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Sayan, Ramazan Caner & Bilgen, Arda & Kibaroğlu, Ayşegül, 2025, "Towards water regionalism? Examining the linkages between water, infrastructures, and regionalism in Turkey," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 126296, Feb.
• Karine Moukaddem & Marion Dovis & Josephine Kass-Hanna & Léa Bou Khater & Eva Raiber, 2024, "To Leave or Not to Leave: The Role of Aspirations and Networks in Shaping Young Women’s Migration Decisions in Lebanon," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1715, Aug, revised 20 Aug 2024.
• Ali Souag & Ragui Assaad, 2024, "When Active Labor Market Policies Increase Unemployment: An Assessment of The Impact of The Employment Agencies Program in Algeria," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1726, Sep, revised 20 Sep 2024.
• Mohamed Ismail Sabry, 2024, "The Prospects of The Green Transition in The Arab Region: State-Society Actors, Power Relations, Interests and Coordination," Working Papers, Economic Research Forum, number 1724, Sep, revised 20 Sep 2024.
• International Monetary Fund, 2024, "United Arab Emirates: 2024 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; and Staff Report," IMF Staff Country Reports, International Monetary Fund, number 2024/325, Dec.
• Mohammad Reza Farzanegan & Sven Fischer, 2025, "The Effect of the “Woman Life Freedom†Protests on Life Satisfaction in Iran: Evidence from Survey Data," MAGKS Papers on Economics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung), number 202501.
• Memoğlu, Ömer, 2024, "Türkiye, with the longest coastline in the Eastern Mediterranean, is Israel's maritime neighbor," OSF Preprints, Center for Open Science, number rgf75, Dec, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/rgf75.
• Spencer Hartnett, Allison & Saleh, Mohamed, 2025, "Precolonial elites and colonial redistribution of political power," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 125972, Nov.
• International Monetary Fund, 2024, "Jordan: 2024 Article IV Consultation, Second Review Under the Extended Arrangement Under the Extended Fund Facility, and Request for Modification of Performance Criteria-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Jordan," IMF Staff Country Reports, International Monetary Fund, number 2024/345, Dec.
• Samir Mirdasse, 2024, "Transformation, digitalisation et commercialisation des produits de la pêche maritime au Maroc : Enjeux et perspectives," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-04853876, Nov, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14544539.
• Hauer, Mathew & Brewster, Karin & Brooks, Matthew M, 2024, "Even In Ancient Roman Egypt, Urban Women had Lower Fertility than Rural Women," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number ru8xd, Dec, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/ru8xd.
• Gökçe, Merve Betül, 2024, "The effect of rental prices on student mobility," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 122834, Nov.
• Afaf Zarkik, 2023, "Gas Crisis in Europe: A Harbinger of Sustainable Cooperation with North Africa," Research papers & Policy papers on Commodities & Energy, Policy Center for the New South, number 2315, Sep.
• McCloskey, PJ & Malheiros Remor, Rodrigo, 2024, "Comparative Analysis of ARIMA, VAR, and Linear Regression Models for UAE GDP Forecasting," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 122860, Sep, revised 01 Dec 2024.
• International Monetary Fund, 2024, "Kuwait: 2024 Article IV Consultation-Press Release; Staff Report; and Statement by the Executive Director for Kuwait," IMF Staff Country Reports, International Monetary Fund, number 2024/328, Dec.
• Benadi, Hanane, 2024, "Divine trust (Amana) and climate change in Jordan: valuing water in the face of water scarcity," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 125964, Dec.
• International Monetary Fund, 2024, "Kuwait: Selected Issues," IMF Staff Country Reports, International Monetary Fund, number 2024/329, Dec.

Report NEP-ARA-2025-01-20

This is the archive for NEP-ARA, a report on new working papers in the area of MENA - Middle East and North Africa. Paul Makdissi issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

Subscribe to this report: email, RSS, or Mastodon, or Bluesky.

Other reports in NEP-ARA

The following items were announced in this report: