Healthcare reform in Turkey: achievements and challenges
Healthcare reforms in Turkey have aimed to reduce the potentially heavy burden of ‘out-of-pocket’ payments on household resources and to ...
Life satisfaction in Arab countries
How do people in Egypt, Jordan, Morocco and Tunisia feel about their lives? Summarising analysis of data collected in nationally ...
Protecting households from catastrophic health costs: evidence from Sudan
Out-of-pocket’ (OOP) healthcare expenditure is a heavy burden on household resources in developing countries like Sudan where poverty and illness ...
The politics of trade protection: evidence from Mubarak’s Egypt
Trade liberalisation in many developing countries has been pursued selectively, with a general reduction in tariffs counterbalanced by growing reliance ...
Financial inclusion, financial stability and inequality
Are programmes aimed at promoting financial inclusion in the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) leading to ...
Breaking Egypt’s unsocial contract
What have been the economic and political underpinnings of Egypt’s transition between social contract models? This column explores possible pathways ...
Tunisia is back on a knife edge – here’s why
While celebrating the seventh anniversary of the ousting of president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, Tunisians been demonstrating against their government. ...
Promoting better jobs for young people in Egypt
A young person’s first job has a huge impact on the rest of their working life. Today, Egyptian youth face ...