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This note presents and analyzes the main design features of an inventory of non-publicly provided Active Labor Market Programs (ALMPs) in Arab-Mediterranean Countries (AMCs), with a specific focus on programs targeted at youth. Despite considerable international...Read More

This paper goes one step further and uses the same income shares to estimate a yearly income distribution for 97 countries between 1970 and 1998. The rest of the paper is organized as follows. Section 2 discusses the data and the estimation of the individual country...Read More

This Country Assistance Evaluation (CAE) looks at the effectiveness of World Bank assistance since 1990 from three perspectives: an analysis of the Bank’s assistance program, the Bank’s development impact, and the contribution of the Bank and its development partners...Read More

This research seeks to evaluate the effects of growth and inequality on the dynamics of poverty in Tunisia from 1985 to 2005. To achieve this aim, two types of analyses are discussed. First, we proceed with the decomposition of changes in poverty into contribution of...Read More

The main aim of this report is to institute a new official method for measuring poverty in Tunisia that would reflect population growth and scientific progress as well as better enhance the data collected. It details the various stages involved in the establishment of...Read More

Average incomes of the poorest fifth of society rise proportionately with average incomes. This is a consequence of the strong empirical regularity that the share of income accruing to the bottom quintile does not vary systematically with average income. This paper...Read More

This paper investigates the association between gender and poverty in Tunisia based upon an empirical analysis of 1990 and 2000 household surveys. It also tests whether there is a widespread feminization of poverty. Read More

The effects of trade liberalization on poverty in Tunisia are examined, using a layered dynamic CGE-micro-simulation approach. A dynamic CGE model endogenously generates the evolution of prices, as well as income paths under protection and freer trade assumptions for...Read More

The aim of this paper is to use some new spatial statistical tools for analyzing the determinants of welfare and poverty in Tunisia Read More

This country profile, prepared in the framework of the JFA programme, is the first in a new series of publication of the ILO Area Office and the North Africa Multidisciplinary Advisory Team (NAMAT) in Cairo. Titled Towards Decent Work in North Africa, the series will...Read More