Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries have used petroleum revenues to fund employment programs as a main means for supporting the welfare of their populations. The public sector in GCC countries seeks to provide every national labor market entrant with a job, reflecting the policy of...

Unlike in Asia, the manufacturing sector has not (yet) become a driver of structural change in Africa. One common explanation is that the natural resource-focus of many African economies leads to Dutch disease effects. To test this argument for the case of newly found oil in Ghana we develop a...

The impact of a program or policy intervention is influenced by the impact synergies from other programs and policies, and by the role of underlying institutions. This fact, though known, has not been formally treated in existing literature. This paper addresses this gap by developing a...