Makdissi, P. (2025), AI, Digitalization, and Social Protection in the Arab Region: A Human Development Conversation, Arab Reform Initiative.
Makdissi, P. (2025), Freedom, agency, and material conditions: Human development in MENA, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2025), Happiness matters - but fleeting emotions make poor policy targets, The National.
Makdissi, P., W. Marrouch, and M. Yazbeck (2025), Trust in Lebanon’s public institutions: a challenge for the new leadership, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2024), Rising influence: women’s empowerment within Arab households, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2024), Poverty and plutonomy: measuring extreme bipolarisation in the Arab world, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2024), Shifting public trust in governments across the Arab world, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2024), Freedom: the missing piece in analysis of multidimensional wellbeing, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2024), Child stunting in Tunisia: an alarming rise, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal. (French video version of this column: https://youtu.be/C1y39fuKjRQ?si=TI5CZkPBG18b8iUg)
Makdissi, P. (2024), Happiness in the Arab world: should we be concerned?, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P., W. Marrouch, and M. Yazbeck (2023), Measuring poverty in Lebanon in the time of economic collapse, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Fakih, A., P. Makdissi, W. Marrouch, R. Tabri, and M. Yazbeck (2022), Élections au Liban : est-ce la fin pour les dirigeants kleptocrates qui ont mis le pays en faillite ?, La Conversation.
Makdissi, P. and M. Seif Edine (2020), Tackling Lebanon’s fiscal crisis: should food subsidies be eliminated?, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Abu-Ismail, K., P. Makdissi, and O. Safa (2019), Arab countries are caught in an inequality trap, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.
Makdissi, P. (2018), Are fuel or food subsidies the right policy tools to reduce inequality? An evidence-based illustration for four Arab economies, Arab Food and Nutrition Security Blog, IFPRI. (Arabic version of this column: هل يعتبر الدعم الأداة السياسية السليمة للحد من عدم المساواة؟)
Makdissi, P. (2018), Subsidy reforms and social justice: lessons from Egypt, The Forum, ERF Policy Portal.