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    Skilled migration and the transfer of institutional norms

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Labour migration is a central feature of the current international economy rousing attention from both academics and policymakers. This paper examines the impact of international emigration on the evolution of the quality of institutions in the origin countries.
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    Iodized salt consumption in Sudan: present status and future directions

    Journal of Health, Population and Nutrition, 2012
    Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) Control Programme in Sudan adopted salt iodisation as the long-term strategy in 1994. In 2000, it was found that less than 1% of households were using adequately-iodised salt. The objectives of this study are to:
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    Pro-women legal reform in Morocco: is religion an obstacle?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The question of the role of modern law in triggering social change is of particular importance in societies where customs and norms support the marginalisation of some social groups. This paper focuses on the adherence of agents to a pro-women legal reform in Morocco and the reform of the Family Code which is religious-inspired legislation.
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    Fiscal institutions in resource-rich economies: lessons from Chile and Norway

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Arab oil exporters are at a critical juncture, facing the challenge of revamping their fiscal policy institutions. Correspondingly, this paper provides comparative reviews of Chile’s and Norway’s experience in setting up new fiscal institutions and rules to manage their resource rents, aiming at more macroeconomic and financial stability.
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    Regime-switching behavior in the conditional volatility of MENA stock market returns

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Understanding the behaviour of volatility is important for pricing financial assets, implementing hedging strategies and for evaluating regulatory proposals to restrict international capital flows. The objective of this paper is to investigate the behaviour of the time varying volatility in eleven MENA countries’ stock market.
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    The impact of remittances on education in Jordan, Syria and Lebanon

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is witnessing the migration of its most educated labour that is seeking higher returns to compensate their households' initial investment in education.
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    Oil prices, external income, and growth: lessons from Jordan

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    This paper presents a modeling framework dedicated for an oil-importing but labour-exporting small open economy which receives large inflows of external income from oil-rich countries. The paper aims to examine the importance of external income shocks in the growth dynamics of the country, taking Jordan as a case study.
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    Delaying Artemisinin resistance in India

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    Artemisinin resistance has been called the greatest threat to malaria control, and could lead to loss of the hard-won gains of the last decade. That success has been dramatic: since 2000, malaria deaths have been halved, due in no small part to the widespread use of artemisinins in artemisinin-combination therapies (ACTs).
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    Dynamics of pharmaceutical quality systems for the export of pharmaceuticals from India to Africa

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    With its pharmaceutical exports, India has been contributing to public health globally and is often referred to as the ‘pharmaceutical factory’ to the world. For example, India has a dominant global market share of anti-retrovirals (80%) and paediatric ARVs (90%) in the world.
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    Final report on expanding accessibility of affordable user-centric phototherapy devices for neonates with severe jaundice: D-Rev

    Knowledge Partnership Programme, 2014
    This report assesses the work of D-Rev a nonprofit product company that designs, and works with local partners to deliver products that improve the lives and increase the incomes of people living on less than 24.INR/2.5 GBP per day.

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