Blogs and Media

Blogs

Do Elites Capture Foreign Aid?, UNU-Wider, April, 2022

War Induced Inflation Imperils the Poor, VoxEU, April, 2022

Which Jobs Are Most at Risk Because of COVID-19? Future Development, May, 2020.

Trade, Poverty, and Inequality Let’s Talk Development, April, 2020.

Who Gains from Trade? Future Development, January 2020.

Inequality and trade: Simulation evidence for 54 developing nations VoxEU, January 2020.

Do Robots Threaten North-South Trade and Welfare? VoxDev, April 2019.

Did the Arab Spring Democratize Corruption? Future Development, June 2015.

Does Bribery Speed up Bureaucracy? Future Development, February 2015.

How Ben Ali Policies Continue to Impoverish Tunisians Future Development, November 2014.

Stories from the Unfinished Revolution: Tunisians farmers have the Know How, but Lack Support Voices and Views: MENA, September 2014.

All in the Family Future Development, reposted on Naked Capitalism, March 2014.

Tunisia's Golden Age of Crony Capitalism Monkey Cage, Washington Post, March 2014.

Enabling Employment Miracles Voices and Views: MENA, September 2014.

Are Female Firms Less Productive? Findings from the Rural Investment Climate Pilot Surveys Let's Talk Development, June 2012.

Job Creation: A Big Role for Big Firms Voices and Views: MENA, April 2012.

Recovering with Jobs in the Middle East and Northern Africa Voices and Views: MENA, December 2011.

Coping with Crises Policies to Protect Employment and Earnings VoxEU, April 2011.

Podcast

The food crisis has no respect for borders, VoxEU Podast, 20 May 2022


Policy Briefs

Which Jobs are Most at Risk of COVID-19? What an Analysis of the European Union Reveals

Avoiding the Eye of the Storm: How to Deal Effectively with Jobs Crises

Rural Non-Farm Enterprises in Ethiopia: Challenges and Prospects


Media Coverage

The Other Victim, The Economist, July 4, 2015.

Widespread Graft Benefited Tunisian Leader’s Family, Study Says, New York Times, June 25, 2015.

Weltbankbericht zu Ben Ali: Ausgeraubtes Tunesien, Neue Zurcher Zeiting, June 28, 2015.

Le clan Ben Ali a privé la Tunisie de 1,2 à 2,6 milliards de dollars d’impôts douaniers, Jeune Afrique, June 25, 2015.

Friends in High Places, The Economist, October 11, 2014.

Former Tunisia president changed business rules to family’s benefit, Financial Times, March 24, 2015.


Other coverage of "All in the Family: State Capture in Tunisia"

Al Jazeera English (with video), Al Jazeera Arabic, BBC Radio, Truth-out, the Economist, mentions in Foreign Policy, including by Isobel Coleman

France 24, Jeune Afrique, Le Monde, Huffing Post Canada, Huffington Post Maghreb, Liberation, Le Point, Al Ahram, Atlas Info , L’essentiel, News press, Mondiaal Nieuws, Orient XXI, Associazone Culture I Care, Middle East Online, ERF Conference blog (with video)

Tunisian and other African media

African Manager, Tunisia Live, Express FM, Mosaique FM,Shems FM, Business News, Webdo, Al Masdar, Babnet, with video, TAP, Democracy Digest, Moroccan Times, Nawaat (several blogs including on the timing of the report), editorials by Raddhi Meddeb, and Mokhtar El Khlifir