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    Tax morale and pro-social behavior: evidence from a Palestinian survey

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The Palestinian context is missing in the tax morale literature. This paper considers public spirit and associational activity two major expressions of pro-social behaviour, and estimates their impact on Palestinians’ tax morale (intrinsic motivation to pay taxes).
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    Africa’s evolving continental court structures: at the crossroads?

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Heads of state and government (HOSG) in Africa, through the African Union (AU),
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    Maximising positive impacts of mining projects: stakeholders and partnerships

    South African Institute of International Affairs, 2015
    Despite the fact that mining-led growth is one of the few opportunities low-income African nations have of catching up with other countries, mining in Africa is not seen as creating local benefits. There is little co-operation among stakeholders in the minerals sector and long-term planning is poor.
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    Threshold effect of inflation on growth: evidence from MENA region

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The debate concerning the relationship between inflation and growth is continuously updated. In this paper on MENA countries, nonlinearity of the relationship between inflation and growth is investigated through a dynamic panel threshold model. The main objective is to estimate at which level of inflation the negative impact occurs significantly.
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    Ownership structure and financial performance in Islamic banks: does bank ownership matter?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Studies that have attempted to explain the performance of Islamic banks are limited compared to the abundant literature on this issue for conventional banks. The current study aims to investigate empirically the relation between ownership structure and performance in a panel data sample of 53 Islamic Banks scattered over 15 countries for a five-year period (2005 to 2009).
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    Are international food price spikes the source of Egypt’s high inflation?

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    High inflation has been one of the key macroeconomic challenges facing Egypt over the past few years. This paper examines whether domestic inflation spikes in Egypt during 2001-2011 were primarily the result of external food price shocks.
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    On informality and productivity of micro and small enterprises: evidence from MENA countries

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Many researches demonstrate that micro and small enterprises (MSEs) are key drivers of productivity growth; identically, informality has been found to be one of the main causes of the productivity gap between developed and developing countries.
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    Financial cascades in the MENA region: theory, empirics and policy

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    Information asymmetry in financial markets and lack of financial transparency permeate many developing countries, but are particularly severe in those where modern financial institutions are still in their infancy; that is the case in most MENA countries. This paper provides a randomised analytical model in which financial volatility arises from the herd behaviour of agents.
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    Rethinking social insurance in Egypt: an empirical study

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The pension schemes and social insurance systems (SISs) have important implications on individual choices and preferences in the labour market. This paper aims to know who gets social insurance (SI) among wage and non-wage workers in Egypt, and the extent to which the main determinants of SI could play differently for each of them.
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    Impact of trade reforms in Tunisia on the elasticity of labor demand

    Economic Research Forum, Egypt, 2012
    The impact of trade reforms on the labour market may transit through many channels; one of these is the effect on labour demand elasticity. This paper divides labour into skilled and unskilled categories in order to analyse the effects of trade policies on labour demand elasticities by skill in Tunisia.

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