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Besides the desk review and statistical data analysis of the 2011 labour force survey and administrative data, some 10 stakeholders – government officials, former executives of employment agencies, representatives of social partners (trade unions and employer...Read More

Explanatory note on the 2014 Human Development Report composite indices. The 2014 Human Development Report (HDR) presents the 2014 Human Development Index (HDI) (values and ranks) for 187 countries and UN-recognized territories, along with the Inequality-adjusted HDI...Read More

Explanatory note on the 2014 Human Development Report composite indices. The 2014 Human Development Report (HDR) presents the 2014 Human Development Index (HDI) (values and ranks) for 187 countries and UN-recognized territories, along with the Inequality-adjusted HDI...Read More

This paper argues that Kuwait’s power and desalinated water generation inadequacies are as much a consequence of the low prices charged for Kuwait’s utilities as of the insufficiencies of its infrastructure. It uses a model-based methodology to compare the current...Read More

This policy brief examines the influence of demographic transition and migration on the development of the Kuwait labour market and economy. Read More

The report provides the Arab countries and the international community, donors, and other stakeholders with an extensive understanding of the water situation in the region. In laying out the building blocks of good water governance needed to manage increasing water...Read More

In the region of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), the rate of women’s economic participation is lower than in any other region of the world, which has aroused genuine and deep concern. Why have improvements in women’s attainment of education...Read More

This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level. It measures trade policy uncertainty as the gap between binding tariff commitments under trade...Read More

The report builds on the two previous reports: the “Arab Knowledge Report 2009: Towards Productive Intercommunication for Knowledge” and the “Arab Knowledge Report 2010/2011: Preparing Future Generations for the Knowledge Society”. The two reports had highlighted many...Read More

The paper looks at the evolution of public finance in a select number of MENA countries over the past 50 years. The review covers the size of government, how it is financed, and the composition of expenditures and revenue. The size of government expenditures has swung...Read More