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Mixed methods approach for research on youth inclusion in labour markets in Niger

This article briefly explores how to combine two qualitative methodologies to inspect the topic of youth inclusion in Niger via a mixed methods analysis. It presents the ethnographic approach develope...

Just transition in Southeast Asia: Exploring the links between social protection and environmental policies

The link between social protection and the environment is expected to become a growing policy intervention area in Southeast Asia. Based on a systematic review of the academic and institutional litera...

Regulating platform delivery work in Argentina. Tensions between regulations and the priorities of workers

The quarantine imposed in March 2020 shed light on the essential labour performed by digital delivery platforms’ workers and their precarious labour conditions. In order to protect them, seven draft b...

Labour market trajectories and conciliation efforts among female Uber drivers

This article examines female Uber drivers’ labour trajectories, paying attention to the way in which gender-based occupational segregation is reproduced and/or challenged in the context of the platfor...

First Out, Last In amid COVID-19: Employment Vulnerability of Youths in the Middle East

This study estimates the impacts of the evolving COVID-19 crisis on the trends in workers’ employment outcomes in Egypt and Jordan. Using panel microdata from ERF COVID-19 MENA Monitors, waves 1–5 (Ju...

Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs

We investigate the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in four non-oil-exporting MENA countries (Jordan, Morocco, Tunisia, and Egypt). Using data from a recen...

Women and Youth labor market outcomes during Covid19: evidence from Egypt and Jordan

In response to the onslaught of Covid-19, many countries introduced lockdowns and social distancing measures of varying stringency, with severe repercussions for labor market participants. Youth and f...

Resilience in the Time of Covid-19: Lessons Learned from MENA SMEs

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) represent an important socioeconomic pillar that contributes to overall economic activity in many developing countries. The Covid-19 pandemic that emerged in...

Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in the Time of COVID-19: Selected MENA Countries

COVID-19 is testing food and social protection systems in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region at an unprecedented scale. Countries responded by expanding social safety nets (SSNs) and/or di...

Social Safety Nets and Food Insecurity in MENA in the Time of COVID-19

A total of 52 million people in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) were chronically undernourished in 2019. About eight million more were expected to fall into poverty and be food insecure in the...

Gender and Mental Health: COVID-19 shock-related factors

At the time of the COVID-19 pandemic, the self-reported mental well-being of women in certain Middle East and North African (MENA) countries was significantly worse compared to that of men. New analys...

Populations' behavior analysis toward Covid-19 safety measures: Evidence from Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia

This policy brief assesses the COVID-19 safety measures use practices of some MENA populations, namely: Algerian, Moroccan and Tunisian populations. To this end, three waves of data provided by rapid...

Mental Health and Gender Inequality in the MENA Region: An Analysis of Shock Related Factors Within the Contex...

This paper investigates the potential associations between factors that affected households during the pandemic (such as food insecurity) and the gendered mental health inequalities in the MENA region...

Populations' Behavior Toward Covid-19 Safety Measures: Evidence from Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia

The present study aims to analyze the populations’ behavior toward COVID-19 safety measures in each of Algeria, Morocco, and Tunisia. In this direction, a particular focus is put on which safety measu...

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Checks and balance, Political Leadership, and Bureaucratic Autonomy: Evidence from National Development Banks

A long standing view in the political economy of bureaucracy holds that the quality of political governance is the foundation of high quality development agencies. However, the existing literature doe...

Carbon Policies and Climate Financial Regulation

We analyze optimal climate financial regulation to address the question when capital requirements should be differentiated in order to encourage climate related investments. We distinguish between two...

Piloting and Scaling Up Clean Energy Transitions: The Role of Development Finance Institutions

In this paper, the authors examine the role of development finance institutions (DFIs) in piloting clean energy transitions by conducting in-depth case studies with representative multilateral de...

Counter-cyclical Responses: How Development Banks helped the Covid-19 Recovery, and Lessons for the Future

The objective of this paper is to shed light on the crucial and varied counter-cyclical roles played by development banks across the globe during the COVID-19 pandemic, and lessons learned for future...