Syria: Fiscal Policy Perspectives

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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 balances in the country within its regional environment. In this perspective, Syria presents a challenging case of political economy.

After presenting the basic features of the Syrian economy, attention is devoted to understanding the rationale of the observed behaviors. The elements of choice in terms of trade-offs, management of time and available resources are then described. And finally some major options are sketched, without getting to the design of specific policies.

 

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Migration and Education Decisions in a Dynamic General Equilibrium Framework

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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 develop a generic dynamic general equilibrium model to analyze the education-migration nexus in a consistent framework. They use the model as a laboratory to test empirical conditions for the existence of net brain gain, that is, greater domestic accumulation of human capital (in per capita terms) with greater migration of skilled workers.

The results suggest that although some structural parameters can favor simultaneously greater human capital accumulation and greater skilled migration—such as high ratio of remittances over domestic incomes, high dependency ratios in migrant households, low dependency ratios in source countries, increasing returns to scale in the education sector, technological transfers and export market access with Diasporas, and efficient financial markets—this does not necessarily mean that greater migration encourages the constitution of greater stocks of human capital in source countries.

 

As-Safir Newspaper – نبيه عواضة : نحاس للشباب: إلى مجلس النواب

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As-Safir Newspaper – نبيه عواضة : نحاس للشباب: إلى مجلس النواب.

As-Safir Newspaper – ملاك عقيل : حيطان «الفايسبوك» و«الشهيد» نحاس:«أختلف معك… لكنك مختلف عنهم»

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As-Safir Newspaper – ملاك عقيل : حيطان «الفايسبوك» و«الشهيد» نحاس:«أختلف معك… لكنك مختلف عنهم».

As-Safir Newspaper – الحكومة تستعيد نفسها الاثنين … وبديل نحاس اليوم

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As-Safir Newspaper – الحكومة تستعيد نفسها الاثنين … وبديل نحاس اليوم.

As-Safir Newspaper – سعدى علوه : نحاس يرسم خريطة طريق تحفظ حقوق العاملات المنزليات ورب العمل

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As-Safir Newspaper – سعدى علوه : نحاس يرسم خريطة طريق تحفظ حقوق العاملات المنزليات ورب العمل.

Land and Real estate economy in Lebanon

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Conference at the Cermoc

Published in : “Observatoire de Recherches sur Beyrouth et la Reconstruction, Lettre d’information” N°12, 2000

October 1998

Analysis of the role of real estate in the Lebanese economy as wall as in the social and political imagination of the Lebanese, notably during the period of the “reconstruction”.

Seminar on Urban Planning and land policies in Lebanon

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Held in June July 2000

The seminar was jointly organized by the author and by Eric Huybrechts, then director of the CERMOC (Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le Moyen-Orient Contemporain), in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Works, the General Directorate of Urban Planning and the Order of Engineers.

The proceedings of the seminar present a comprehensive picture of the multiple facets of the facts and practices of urban planning and land development in Lebanon.

The seminar gathered the practitioners of planning in the administration and in the private sector, the local authorities, the sectoral administrations and a number of European experts.

It had a determining influence on the decision of the Lebanese Government to launch the studies of the “National Physical master Plan for Lebanon”, few months later.

table of access to the documents : in french – in arabic.