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Growth and environmental degradation in MENA countries: methodological issues and empirical evidence 中东和北非国家的增长和环境退化:方法问题和经验证据

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1673090

I. Moosa

引用次数: 2

Ideas, networks and jobs: rebasing growth in the Middle East and North Africa 思想、网络和就业:中东和北非经济增长的重新定位

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1664843

P. Collier

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Son Preference and Child Under nutrition in the Arab Countries: Is There a Gender Bias against Girls? 阿拉伯国家的重男轻女与儿童营养不良：是否存在对女孩的性别偏见？

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1664837

M. Sharaf, A. Rashad, Elhussien Ibrahim Mansour

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引用次数: 9

Determinants and impact of household's out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure in Sudan: evidence from urban and rural population* 苏丹家庭自费医疗支出的决定因素和影响:来自城市和农村人口的证据*

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1668163

Ebaidalla M. Ebaidalla, Mohammed Elhaj Mustafa Ali

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引用次数: 17

How gender biased are female-headed household transfers in Egypt? 埃及女性户主的家庭转移有多大的性别偏见?

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1668162

Lobna Abdellatif, Mohamed Ramadan, Sara ElBakry

{"title":"How gender biased are female-headed household transfers in Egypt?","authors":"Lobna Abdellatif, Mohamed Ramadan, Sara ElBakry","doi":"10.1080/17938120.2019.1668162","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17938120.2019.1668162","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this paper, we claim that the policy of targeting female-headed households’ (FHHs) may generate bias against women in male-headed households (MHHs) who may be more poverty-constrained. Targeting FHHs may have the merit of clear targeting; however, it doesn’t address the feminization phenomenon of poverty; instead, it presents unequal opportunities for women in other families by less favouring them. We argue that proper targeting could be derived based on the number of women in families. The study applied a Gender-Based Poverty Detection Model to provide a good detection of household poverty and show that the vulnerable characteristics of females could be more influenced by the general household’s poverty than females’ headed households. Model results showed that not all FHHs are poor, and that some de jure MHHs include a large number of poor females. This means that targeting only de jure FHHs might result in resource leakage to the non-poor and under-coverage of poor de facto FHHs and poor females in MHHs. The analysis asserts that female headship is not always a correlate of poverty in Egypt. An important correlate, however, is the share of female members in the household. This raises questions about the effectiveness of social assistance and poverty alleviation programmes in Egypt in targeting female poverty.","PeriodicalId":43862,"journal":{"name":"Middle East Development Journal","volume":"11 1","pages":"165 - 180"},"PeriodicalIF":0.5,"publicationDate":"2019-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/17938120.2019.1668162","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"60484946","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 6

On the potential and Limitations of monetary policy in Turkey* 论土耳其货币政策的潜力和局限性*

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1664838

Ilker Domaç, G. Isiklar, M. Kandil

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引用次数: 4

Armed conflict and child labor: evidence from Iraq 武装冲突与童工：来自伊拉克的证据

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1672020

G. Naufal, Michael Malcolm, V. Diwakar

引用次数: 7

Policy choices in the 21st century – where to start? 21世纪的政策选择——从哪里开始？

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-07-03 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1664839

R. Medhora

引用次数: 0

Institutions and macroeconomic policies in resource-rich Arab economies 资源丰富的阿拉伯经济体的体制和宏观经济政策

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-05-16 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1675020

K. Schmidt-Hebbel

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引用次数: 6

Fiscal policy, inequality, and poverty in Iran: assessing the impact and effectiveness of taxes and transfers. 伊朗的财政政策、不平等和贫困：评估税收和转移支付的影响和有效性。

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Middle East Development Journal Pub Date : 2019-03-08 eCollection Date: 2019-01-01 DOI: 10.1080/17938120.2019.1583510

Ali Enami, Nora Lustig, Alireza Taqdiri

引用次数: 24