, financial reforms that ended decades of financial repression, and a massive privatization program. We investigate the role … played by ideas, interests and institutions. More specifically, we examine the role played by the 'reform team' investigate …

The pandemic aggravated Tunisia's long-standing vulnerabilities stemming from persistent fiscal and external imbalances …

, continued fiscal and monetary stimulus, and the persistent buoyancy of remittances. Going forward, Morocco's growth is expected …, the current account deficit is projected to widen in 2021 and over the medium term, but Morocco emerges from the pandemic …

Lebanon is the country with the highest density of refugees in the world, raising the question of whether the host and … refugee populations can cooperate harmoniously. We conduct a lab-in-the-field experiment in Lebanon studying intra- and inter …

We study the role of firms in the political economy of trade agreements. Using detailed information from lobbying … reports filed under the Lobbying Disclosure Act, we find that virtually all firms that lobby on free trade agreements (FTAs …) support their ratification. Moreover, relative to non-lobbying firms, lobbying firms are larger, and more likely to be engaged …

timing of the extensions of this right from elite groups to a broad population generally later, than in areas where there was …

This paper discusses Morocco's Ex Post Evaluation of Exceptional Access Under the 2012 Precautionary and Liquidity Line …