Publications

Paper Presented at  the Economic Research Forum (ERF) and UNDP sponsored labor workshop March 2000, Cairo.
This paper employs a non-technical framework for analyzing the interactions between growth and distribution in the analysis of the behavior of poverty over time in six Arab countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Mauritania, Morocco and Tunisia). The framework suggests tentative country-specific strategies for dealing with poverty in the six Arab countries, based on indicators of country performance during 1986-96- - in terms of the rate of acceleration of growth, changes in poverty and extent of inequality —as well as prevailing labor market conditions during the period.