Publications

Windfalls and Pitfalls: How Foreign Labor Strengthens Economic Resilience in GCC During Energy Transition

Dramane Coulibaly, Fatih Karanfil, Luc Desire Omgba

Governments in oil-dependent countries, particularly those in the Gulf, have launched broad and ambitious national plans to diversify their economies. While diversification reduces vulnerability to oil shocks, the expansion of renewables and the deregulation of domestic energy prices decrease domestic…

Dramane Coulibaly

Karanfil, Fatih

Luc Desire Omgba

Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic on Migrant Workers in the Informal Sector and Spin-Off Effects in their Destination and Home Countries

T20

The coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic has posed major challenges to healthcare systems worldwide. It will also have long-lasting effects on the economy, pushing millions around the world into precarity and poverty. The already vulnerable will be hit even harder—the slum…

Fatih Karanfil, Luc Desire Omgba, Mohamed Sharif Ahmed, Ana B. Moreno, Nhusha Vu, Dramane Coulibaly, Hind Kinani