Tackling Lebanon’s fiscal crisis: should food subsidies be eliminated?
Is elimination of food subsidies the right policy to address Lebanon's public finance crisis? This column reports research that uses ...
Coping with a dual shock: Covid-19 and oil prices
Countries in the Middle East and North Africa face a dual shock from the Covid-19 pandemic and a collapse in ...
On Lebanon’s economic crisis and recourse to IMF assistance
Failures of fiscal policy, monetary policy and banking practices have led to economic crisis in Lebanon. This column argues that ...
Policy for the Covid-19 crisis: survey of leading economists
How should governments respond to the global pandemic? This column reports the views of leading economists on seeming trade-offs between ...
How COVID-19 could shape a new world order
The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive shock to the world economy and its impact will be wide-ranging across all domains ...
Dutch disease, developing oil-exporting countries and Iraq’s exchange rate
It is sometimes suggested that the Iraqi economy is similar to that of the Netherlands after the discovery of extensive ...
COVID-19 pandemic and the Middle East and Central Asia
The number of confirmed COVID-19 pandemic in the Middle East and Central Asia began rising sharply in late February. At ...
Elections and economic cycles: evidence from Turkey’s recent experiences
It has long been understood that incumbent politicians are likely to have incentives to manipulate fiscal policy around election times ...