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Exploring Lebanon’s Growth Prospects

Jean-Claude Berthelemy,Sebastien Dessus & Charbel Nahas World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, number 4332 August 2007 This paper attempts to identify Lebanon ’ s greatest constraints to economic growth, following a growth diagnosis approach. It concludes that fiscal imbalances and barriers to entry are most binding on long-term growth. Macroeconomic imbalances and related perceived […]

Discussion and Approval of the National Budget in Iraq

Document presented to the Iraqi Members of Parliament, within the UNDP “Program on Governance in the Arab Region” December 2007 The paper is destined for the Iraqi MPs and aims at illustrating the central place of fiscal choices in the economy but also, and mainly, in the consolidation of the functional legitimacy of the state, […]

Syria: Fiscal Policy Perspectives

  The paper aims at analyzing the fiscal situation in Syria in order to help in the formulation of possible alternatives of fiscal policies. Beside their specific technicalities and constraints, fiscal options are approached as being a direct reflection of more general choices regarding the role of the state in managing the social and political […]

Migration and Education Decisions in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework

Sebastien Dessus and Charbel Nahas World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series, number 4775 With growing international skilled labor mobility, education and migration decisions have become increasingly inter-related, and potentially have a large impact on the growth trajectories of source countries, through their effects on labor supply, savings, or the cost of education. The authors […]