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Paper Presented at  the Economic Research Forum (ERF) and UNDP sponsored labor workshop March 2000, Cairo. This paper employs a non-technical framework for analyzing the interactions between growth and distribution in the analysis of the behavior of poverty over time...Read More

The Mediterranean Development Forum (MDF), launched in 1997, is a partner- ship of ten Middle East and North Africa region (MENA) think tanks and the World Bank Institute. The partnership is dedicated to providing policy support for . development actors, research, and...Read More

Utilizing a combination of time series and cross section data, research conducted here investigates the evolution of unemployment in the GCC economies and its rapid increase over the past two decades.  At the micro-level, the paper applies selectivity, multinomial and...Read More

In applying structural adjustment policies and preparing their economies for entry into the Free Trade Area with the European Union, the three Maghreb countries (Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia) face major changes in how their labour markets function, coupled with an...Read More

This study is the outcome of the “EUROMED Employment” project. It presents the synthesis of eight studies regarding the issues and challenges presented by employment, the labor market and social rights in Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Palestine, Syria and...Read More

This paper is one of the six thematic papers that were prepared to inform participants and frame the discussions of the thematic sessions of the Arab Employment Forum. Read More

This working paper examines the main trends in the Arab labor market affecting both supply and demand of the labor force, and presents an overall assessment of the active labor market programs adopted in some Arab countries. It also presents some programs and policies...Read More

The objectives of the study are two-fold: (1) to analyze the key labour market determinants of migration flows from selected Arab Mediterranean Countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia and the Occupied Palestinian Territories), with a...Read More

This paper points to four directions in which policy makers need to go in the coming years. Read More

Unemployment is one of the biggest challenges in the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)1 region: It has the potential to depress per capita standards of GDP, jeopardize standards of living, and breed economic inequality. Although some of these consequences have been...Read More