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Population trends, indicators of demographic transitions, population structure, and population policy profile of the UAE. Read More

This paper specifies a flexible model of labour demand in the manufacturing sector. The model is further extended to incorporate a risk function part. It allows to identify the determinants of both level and variations in the level of employment. Read More

This Quick Note provides an overview of the World Bank report “Striving for Better Jobs: the Challenge of Informality in the Middle East and North Africa.” The report was completed as a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests swept across the Arab world....Read More

This note presents and analyzes the main design features of an inventory of non-publicly provided Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) in Arab-Mediterranean Countries (AMCs), with a specific focus on programs targeted at youth. Despite considerable international...Read More

 A research on the interactions between labor mobility and employment outcomes in Tunisia. Read More

This paper provides an institutional assessment of Public Employment Services (PES) in a selected group of countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Given the challenges in the labor market currently faced by countries in the region (high unemployment/...Read More

This paper goes one step further and uses the same income shares to estimate a yearly income distribution for 97 countries between 1970 and 1998. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses the data and the estimation of the individual country...Read More

This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) looks at the effectiveness of World Bank assistance since 1990 from three perspectives: an analysis of the Bank’s assistance program, the Bank’s development impact, and the contribution of the Bank and its development partners...Read More

This research seeks to evaluate the effects of growth and inequality on the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia from 1985 to 2005. To achieve this aim, two types of analyses are discussed. First, we proceed with the decomposition of changes in poverty into contribution of...Read More

The main aim of this report is to institute a new official method for measuring poverty in Tunisia that would reflect population growth and scientific progress as well as better enhance the data collected. It details the various stages involved in the establishment of...Read More