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Boucekkine, R., El Ouardighi, F., & Kogan, K. (2024). Recycling of multi-source waste in an aggregate circular economy. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 32(2), 357-398.
Dobson, A., Ricci, C., Boucekkine, R., Gozzi, F., Fabbri, G., Loch-Temzelides, T., & Pascual, M. (2023). Balancing economic and epidemiological interventions in the early stages of pathogen emergence. Science Advances, 9(21), eade6169.
Boucekkine, R., Ruan, W., & Zou, B. (2023). The irreversible pollution game. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 120, 102841.
Boukhalfa, C., Ouakhzan, B., Masbah, H., Acharai, L., & Zbiri, S. (2024). Investing in midwifery for sustainable development goals in low-and middle-income countries: a cost-benefit analysis. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 22(1), 1.
Bouaddi, O., Zbiri, S., & Belrhiti, Z. (2023). Interventions to improve migrants’ access to sexual and reproductive health services: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health, 8(6), e011981.
Belrhiti, Z., Bigdeli, M., Lakhal, A., Kaoutar, D., Zbiri, S., & Belabbes, S. (2024). Unravelling collaborative governance dynamics within healthcare networks: a scoping review. Health Policy and Planning, 39(4), 412-428.
Awawda, S., Chalak, A., Khader, Y., Mostafa, A., Abla, R., Nakkash, R., … & Abu-Rmeileh, N. M. (2022). Gender differences in the price elasticity of demand for waterpipe and cigarette smoking in Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine: a volumetric choice experiment. BMJ open, 12(7), e058495
Gonçalves Tasca, B., Bousmah, M.-Q., Coulibaly, K., Gosselin, A., Ravalihasy, A., Desgrées du Loû, A., Melchior, M., on behalf of Makasi Study Group. 2024. “Depression and loneliness among Sub-Saharan immigrants living in the greater Paris area: results from the MAKASI empowerment stepped wedge cluster randomised controlled trial”. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Bousmah, M.-Q., Gosselin, A., Coulibaly, K., Ravalihasy, A., Taéron, C., Senne, J.-N., Gubert, F., Desgrées du Loû, A., for the MAKASI Study Group. 2023. “Immigrants’ health empowerment and access to health coverage in France: A stepped wedge randomised controlled trial”. Social Science & Medicine, 339, 116400.
Bousmah M.-Q., Protopopescu C., Mpoudi-Etame M., Omgba Bassega P., Maradan G., Olinga J., Varloteaux M., Tovar-Sanchez T., Delaporte E., Kouanfack C., Boyer S., for the NAMSAL ANRS 12313 Study Group. 2023. “Improvements in patient-reported outcomes following initiation of dolutegravir-based or low-dose efavirenz-based first-line antiretroviral therapy: A four-year longitudinal analysis in Cameroon (NAMSAL ANRS 12313 trial)”. JAIDS Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes, 94(3), 262–272.
Mpoudi-Etame, M., Tovar-Sanchez, T., Bousmah, M.-Q., Omgba Bassega, P., Olinga, J., Mimbe, E., Foalem, M., Chiep, C., Edimo, S., Varloteaux, M., Pelloquin, R., Lamare, N., Boyer, S., Peeters, M., Reynes, J., Calmy, A., Hill, A., Delaporte, E., Kouanfack, C., for the NAMSAL ANRS 12313 Study Group. 2023. “Durability of the Efficacy and Safety of Dolutegravir-based and low-dose Efavirenz-based regimens for the initial treatment of HIV-1 infection in Cameroon: week 192 data of NAMSAL-ANRS-12313 study”. Open Forum Infectious Diseases, 10(12), ofad582.
Coulibaly, K., Bousmah, M.-Q., Ravalihasy, A., Taéron, C., Mbiribindi, R., Senne, J.-N., Gubert, F., Gosselin, A., Desgrées du Loû, A., for the MAKASI Study Group. 2023. “Bridging the knowledge gap of biomedical HIV prevention tools among sub-saharan african immigrants in France. Results from an empowerment-based intervention”. SSM – Population Health, 23, 101468
Coulibaly, K., Bousmah, M.-Q., Ravalihasy, A., Taéron, C., Mbiribindi, R., Senne, J.-N., Gubert, F., Gosselin, A., Desgrées du Loû, A., for the MAKASI Study Group. 2023. Empowerment-based intervention and immigrant awareness of biomedical HIV prevention tools in France. European Journal of Public Health, 33(Supplement_2), ckad160.341.
Farran, D., Salloum, R. G., El Jardali, F., Abla, R., Rmeileh, N. A., Al Sheyab, N., … & Nakkash, R. (2024). From knowledge production to knowledge translation: Waterpipe tobacco control research in the Eastern Mediterranean Region. Tobacco Prevention & Cessation, 10.
Bteddini, D., Nakkash, R. T., Chalak, A., Jawad, M., Khader, Y., Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., … & Salloum, R. G. (2024). Economic research in waterpipe tobacco smoking: reflections on data, demand, taxes, equity and health modelling.
Jawad, M., Awawda, S., Abla, R., Chalak, A., Khader, Y. S., Nakkash, R. T., … & Abu-Rmeileh, N. M. (2024). Impact of waterpipe tobacco taxation on consumption, government revenue and premature deaths averted in Jordan, Lebanon and Palestine: a simulation study. Tobacco Control, 33(e1), e85-e90.
Ngami, A., & Ventelou, B. (2023). Respective healthcare system performances taking into account environmental quality:what are the re-rankings for OECD countries?. Health Research Policy and Systems, 21(1), 1-23.
Ridde, V., Gaye, I., Ventelou, B., Paul, E., & Faye, A. (2023). Mandatory membership of community-based mutual healthinsurance in Senegal: A national survey. PLOS global public health, 3(9), e0001859.
Rafaï, I., Blayac, T., Dubois, D., Duchêne, S., Nguyen-Van, P., Ventelou, B., & Willinger, M. (2023). Stated preferencesoutperform elicited preferences for predicting reported compliance with Covid-19 prophylactic measures. Journal ofBehavioral and Experimental Economics, 107, 102089.
Abul Naga, R. H., Stapenhurst, C., & Yalonetzky, G. (2024). Inferring inequality: Testing for median-preserving spreads in ordinal data. Econometric Reviews, 1.
Lamontagne, E., Leroy, V., Yakusik, A., Parker, W., Howell, S., & Ventelou, B. (2024). Assessment and determinants of depression and anxiety on a global sample of sexual and gender diverse people at high risk of HIV: a public health approach. BMC Public Health, 24(1), 215.
Guillon, M., Nguyen-Van, P., Ventelou, B., & Willinger, M. (2024). Consumer impatience: A key motive for Covid-19 vaccination. Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics, 110, 102190.
Abu-Zaineh M., (2023). Understanding the private health sector in the occupied Palestinian territory. Cairo: WHO RegionalOffice for the Eastern Mediterranean; 2023. Licence: CC BYNC-SA 3.0 IGO.
Abu‐Zaineh, M., & Abul Naga, R. H. (2023). Bread and social justice: measurement of social welfare and inequality using anthropometrics. Review of Income and Wealth, 69(2), 265-288.
Abu-Zaineh, M., & Awawda, S. (2022). Attainment of universal health coverage in the occupied Palestinian territory assessed by a general equilibrium approach: is informality an irreversible hurdle for universality?. The Lancet, 399, S24.
Paul, P., Nguemdjo, U., Ngami, A., Kovtun, N., & Ventelou, B. (2022). Do efficiency and equity move together? Cross-dynamics of Health System performance and Universal Health Coverage. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 9(1), 1-8.
Abu‐Zaineh, M., Chanel, O., & Makhloufi, K. (2022). Estimating willingness to pay for public health insurance while accounting for protest responses: A further step towards universal health coverage in Tunisia?. The International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 37(5), 2809-2821.
Abul Naga, R. H. (2022). The minimal Hilbert basis of the Hammond order cone. Economic Theory Bulletin, 10(2), 191-215.
Iqbal, M., Sameen, H., Abu-Zaineh, M., Mataria, A., and Siddiqi S. Decision-Making Tools for Informed Decisions by Health Policymakers and Managers. ch. 14. in Making Health Systems Work in Low and Middle Income Countries: Textbook for Public Health Practitioners. Siddiqi, S., Mataria, A., Rouleau, K. D., Iqbal, M. (eds). Cambridge University Press (2022).
Boutayeb W., Lamlili M., Ben El Mostafa S., & Boutayeb A. (2015). Inégalités socioéconomiques au Maroc: un frein au développement humain. Annales des Sciences de la Santé, 1(1):4-12.
Makhloufi, K., Ventelou, B., & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2015). Have health insurance reforms in Tunisia attained their intended objectives?. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 15, 29-51.
Saleh SS., Alameddine MS., Natafgi NM., & Mataria, A. et al (2014). The path towards universal health coverage in the Arab uprising countries Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. The Lancet, 383 (9914), 368-381
Abu-Zaineh, M., & Abul Naga, R. H. (2013). Wealth, health, and the measurement of multidimensional inequality: evidence from the Middle East and North Africa. In Health and Inequality (pp. 421-439). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Abu-Zaineh M., Arfa C., Ventelou B., Ben Romdhane H. & Moatti JP. (2014). Fairness in healthcare finance and delivery: what about Tunisia?. Health Policy and Planning, 29 (4):433-442.
Abdulrahim S., James SA., Yamout R., Baker W. (2012). Discrimination and psychological distress: Does whiteness matter for Arab Americans? . Social Science and Medicine, 75(12), 2116-2123.
Abdulrahim, S., & El Asmar, K. (2012). Is self-rated health a valid measure to use in social inequities and health research? Evidence from the PAPFAM women’s data in six Arab countries. International Journal for Equity in Health, 11(1), 1-9.
Farag, M., NandaKumar, A. K., Wallack, S., Hodgkin, D., Gaumer, G., & Erbil, C. (2012). The income elasticity of health care spending in developing and developed countries. International journal of health care finance and economics, 12, 145-162.
Boyer, S., Lalou, R., & Ventelou, B. (2021). Reassessing the demand for community-based health insurance in rural Senegal: Geographic distance and awareness. SSM-Population Health, 16, 100974.
Awawda, S., Ventelou, B., & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2021). Vers une couverture sanitaire universelle au Sénégal: quelles sont les meilleures stratégies de financement?. Revue internationale des études du développement, (3), 37-60.
Zehnati, A., Bousmah, M. A. Q., & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2021). Public–private differentials in health care delivery: the case of cesarean deliveries in Algeria. International Journal of Health Economics and Management, 21, 367-385.
Zehnati, A. (2021). The Emigration of Algerian Doctors: A Normal Phenomenon or a Real Exodus?. International Development Policy, Revue internationale de politique de développement, (13.1).
Abul Naga, R., Stapenhurst, C., & Yalonetzky, G. (2020). Asymptotic versus bootstrap inference for inequality indices of the cumulative distribution function. Econometrics, 8(1), 8.
Abu-Zaineh, M., Awawda, S. & Ventelou, B. (2020). Who bears the burden of Universal Health Coverage? An assessment of alternative financing policies using an overlapping-generations general equilibrium model. Health Policy and Planning, 35(7): 867–877.
Abdulrahim, S., & Bousmah, M. A. Q. (2019). Regional inequalities in maternal and neonatal health services in Iraq and Syria from 2000 to 2011. International Journal of Health Services, 49(3), 623-641.
Abdulrahim, S., El Rafei, R., Beydoun, Z., El Hayek, G. Y., Nakad, P., & Yunis, K. (2019). A test of the epidemiological paradox in a context of forced migration: low birthweight among Syrian newborns in Lebanon. International journal of epidemiology, 48(1), 275-286.
Awawda, S., Abu-Zaineh, M., & Ventelou, B. (2019). The quest to expand the coverage of public health insurance in the occupied Palestinian territory: an assessment of feasibility and sustainability using a simulation modelling framework. The Lancet, 393, S17.
Combes, J. B. S., & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2019). Health differentials between citizens and immigrants in Europe: A heterogeneous convergence. Health Policy, 123(2), 235-243.
Bousmah, M. A. Q. (2017). Childhood Mortality, Childhood Morbidity, and Subsequent Fertility Decisions. Journal of Demographic Economics, 83(2), 211-244.
Abu-Zaineh, M., & Woode, M. E. (2018). Investigating the dimensions of youth wellbeing: an exploratory structural equation Modelling approach applied to Palestine. Child Indicators Research, 11(1), 57-78.
Abu-Zaineh, M., & Woode, M. E. (2018). The importance of health for income inequality in the occupied Palestinian territory: a decomposition analysis and cross-sectional study. The Lancet, 391, S23.
Abu-Zaineh, M., Woode, M. E., & Giacaman, R. (2018). Youth wellbeing through the lens of the Senian capability approach: insights from the occupied Palestinian territory: a cross-sectional study. The Lancet, 391, S53.
Abul Naga, R. H. (2018). Measurement of inequality with a finite number of pay states: the majorization set and its applications. Economic Theory, 65, 99-123.
Chanel, O., Makhloufi, K., & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2017). Can a circular payment card format effectively elicit preferences? Evidence from a survey on a mandatory health insurance scheme in Tunisia. Applied health economics and health policy, 15, 385-398.
Woode, M.E., Bousmah, M.-a.-Q., & Boucekkine, R. (2017). Parental morbidity, child work, and health insurance in Rwanda. Journal of Demographic Economics, 83(1): 111–127.
Bousmah, M. A. Q. (2017). The effect of child mortality on fertility behaviors is non-linear: new evidence from Senegal. Review of Economics of the Household, 15(1), 93-113.
Abu-Rmeileh, N. M., Ghandour, R., Mataria, A., Awawda, S., Jabr, S., & O’Flaherty, M. (2017). Time to act on diabetes mellitus prevention in the West Bank, oPt: Current and future direct cost of diabetes and its complications. Obesity Medicine, 6, 18-22.
Grimm, M. and Treibich, C. (2016). Why do some bikers wear helmets and others don’t? Evidence from Delhi. Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 88: 318-336.
Kankeu, H. T., Boyer, S., Fodjo Toukam, R., & Abu‐Zaineh, M. (2016). How do supply‐side factors influence informal payments for healthcare? The case of HIV patients in Cameroon. The International journal of health planning and management, 31(1), E41-E57.
Kankeu, H. T., & Ventelou, B. (2016). Socioeconomic inequalities in informal payments for health care: an assessment of the ‘Robin Hood’hypothesis in 33 African countries. Social Science & Medicine, 151, 173-186.
Bousmah, M.-a.-Q., Ventelou, B. & Abu-Zaineh, M. (2016). Medicine and democracy: The importance of institutional quality in the relationship between health expenditure and health outcomes in the MENA region. Health Policy, 120(8): 929-935.
Woode, M. E., Abu-Zaineh, M., Perriens, J., Renaud, F., Wiktor, S. & Moatti, J-P (2016). Potential Market Size and Impact of Hepatitis C Treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. Journal of Viral Hepatitis, 23(7): 522-534.
Abul Naga, R. H. A., Shen, Y., & Yoo, H. I. (2016). Joint hypothesis tests for multidimensional inequality indices. Economics Letters, 141, 138-142.
Jung, S. and Treibich, C. (2015). Is Self-Reported Risk Aversion Time Varying? Revue d’Economie Politique, 125 (4): 547-570.
Zehnati, A., & Peyron, C. (2015). Les cliniques privées en Algérie: logiques d’émergence et stratégies de développement. Mondes en Développement, 170(2), 123-140.
Saxenian, H., Hecht, R., Kaddar, M., Schmitt, S., Ryckman, T., & Cornejo, S. (2015). Overcoming challenges to sustainable immunization financing: early experiences from GAVI graduating countries. Health Policy and planning, 30(2), 197-205.
Abul Naga, R. H. & Stapenhurst, C. (2015). Estimation of inequality indices of the cumulative distribution function. Economics Letters, 130, 109–112.
Arrighi Y., Abu-Zaineh M., & Ventelou B. (2015). To count or not to count deaths: Reranking effects in health distribution evaluation. Health Economics, 24 (2) : 193-205.
Hinsch, M., Kaddar, M., & Schmitt, S. (2014). Enhancing medicine price transparency through price information mechanisms. Globalization and health, 10(1), 1-11.
Kaddar, M., Milstien, J., & Schmitt, S. (2014). Impact of BRICS’ investment in vaccine development on the global vaccine market. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 92(6), 436-446.
Zehnati, A., & Peyron, C. (2014). Les raisons de la double activité des médecins: le cas de l’Algérie. Maghreb-Machrek, (3), 89-112.
Woode, M. E., Nourry, C., & Ventelou, B. (2014). Childhood preventive care, adult healthcare and economic growth: The role of healthcare financing. Economics Letters, 124(1), 41-47.
Boutayeb, A., Boutayeb, W., Lamlili, M. E., & Boutayeb, S. (2014). Estimation of the direct cost of diabetes in the Arab region. Mediterranean Journal of Nutrition and Metabolism, 7(1), 21-32.
Grimm, M. and Treibich, C. (2013). Determinants of Road Traffic Crash Fatalities across Indian States. Health Economics, 22 (8): 915-930.
Kaddar M., Schmitt S., Makinen M., & Milstien J. (2013). Global support for new vaccine implementation in middle-income countries. Vaccine, 31, B81-B96.
Abu-Zaineh, Mohammad (2013). Gender-Based Analysis of Public Health Sector Services: A Beneficiary-Based Study. MIFTAH publication (2013): The Palestinian Initiative for the Promotion of Global Dialogue and Democracy
Abu-Zaineh M., Ben Romdhane H., Ventelou B., Moatti J-P. & Arfa C. (2013). Appraising financial protection in health: the case of Tunisia. International Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics, 13(1):73-93.
Abul Naga, R. H., & Jones, P. (2013). Helping others or helping oneself? International subsidies and the provision of global public goods. Oxford Economic Papers, 65(4), 856-875.
Boutayeb, A., Boutayeb, S., & Boutayeb, W. (2013). Multi-morbidity of non communicable diseases and equity in WHO Eastern Mediterranean countries. International journal for equity in health, 12, 1-13.
Salti N. Nuwayri-Salti N. & Ghattas H. (2013). Disability and food insufficiency in the Palestinian refugee population in Lebanon: A household survey. The Lancet, 382, S31.
Farag, M., Nandakumar, A. K., Wallack, S., Hodgkin, D., Gaumer, G., & Erbil, C. (2013). Health expenditures, health outcomes and the role of good governance. International journal of health care finance and economics, 13, 33-52.
Ventelou, B., Arrighi, Y., Greener, R., Lamontagne, E., Carrieri, P., & Moatti, J. P. (2012). The macroeconomic consequences of renouncing to universal access to antiretroviral treatment for HIV in Africa: a micro-simulation model. PloS one, 7(4), e34101.
Makinen, M., Kaddar, M., Molldrem, V., & Wilson, L. (2012). New vaccine adoption in lower-middle-income countries. Health Policy and Planning, 27(suppl 2), ii39-ii49.
Benaabdelaali, W., Hanchane, S., & Kamal, A. (2012). Educational inequality in the world, 1950–2010: Estimates from a new dataset. In Inequality, Mobility and Segregation: Essays in Honor of Jacques Silber (Vol. 20, pp. 337-366). Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
Khadr, ZA.& Yount K.(2012). Differences in Self- Reported Physical Limitation Among Older Women and Men in Ismailia Egypt. The journal of Gerontology, Series B: Social Science, 67B, 605-617.
Abul Naga, R. H. & Jones, P. (2012). Better to give than to receive?: Altruistic provision of a global public good. Economics Letters. 115,(3),480-483.
Khadr ZA., Rashad H. Watts S., & Salem M. (2012). Health inequities: Social determinants and policy implications. In Public Health in the Arab World, (I. Nuwayhid, M. Khawaja, S. Jabbour & R. Giacaman, Eds.), New York, United States of America: Cambridge University press, 61-74.
Zuber, P. L., El-Ziq, I., Kaddar, M., Ottosen, A. E., Rosenbaum, K., Shirey, M., et al. (2011). Sustaining GAVI-supported vaccine introductions in resource-poor countries. Vaccine, 29(17), 3149-3154.
Levin, A., & Kaddar, M. (2011). Role of the private sector in the provision of immunization services in low-and middle-income countries. Health policy and planning, 26(suppl. 1), i4-i12.
Hecht, R., Kaddar, M., & Schmitt, S. (2011). Transparent pricing of vaccines would help poor as well as rich countries. BMJ, 343.
Boyer S., Abu-Zaineh M., Blanche J., Loubière S., Bonono R-C., Moatti J-P, & Ventelou B. (2011). Does HIV-services decentralization protect against the risk of catastrophic health expenditures? Some lessons from Cameroon. Health Services Research, 46 (6.2), 2029-56.
Salti, N. (2011). Natural-resource wealth: Elbow grease or fuel for poverty? Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics JITE, 167(3), 536-556(21)
Abu-Zaineh M., Mataria A., Moatti J-P & Ventelou B. (2011). Measuring and decomposing socioeconomic inequality in health care delivery: A Micro-simulation approach with application to the Palestinian conflict-affected fragile setting. Social Science and Medicine, 72 (2), 133-141.
Chougrani, S., & Kaddar, M. (2010). Expérience de la contractualisation dans le secteur de la santé en Algérie. Journal de Gestion et d’Economie Médicales, 28(5), 179-193.
Milstien, J. B., & Kaddar, M. (2010). The role of emerging manufacturers in access to innovative vaccines of public health importance. Vaccine, 28(9), 2115-2121.
Mataria A., Raad F., Abu-Zaineh M., & Donaldson C. (2010). Catastrophic healthcare payments and impoverishment in the occupied Palestinian territory. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, 8 (6), 393-405.
Abul Naga, R. H. (2010). Statistical inference for multidimensional inequality indices. Economics Letters. 107(1): 49-51.
Mataria, A., Khatib, R., Donaldson, C., Bossert, T., Hunter, D. J., Alsayed, F., & Moatti, J. P. (2009). The health-care system: an assessment and reform agenda. The Lancet, 373(9670), 1207-1217.
Abu-Zaineh M., Mataria A., Luchini S., & Moatti J-P.(2009). Equity in health care finance in Palestine: the triple effects revealed . Journal of Health Economics, 28 (6), 1071-80.
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Vers une couverture sanitaire universelle au Sénégal : quelles sont les meilleures stratégies de financement ?
Towards universal health coverage in developing countries
Immigrants and Citizens: Equal in Health?
Assessing health systems’ capacity to cope with the COVID-19 pandemic: preliminary evidence from MENA countries
La couverture sanitaire universelle au SAHEL : le cas du Mali et du Tchad
Is informality an irrevocable obstacle to Universal Health Coverage (UHC)? Evidence from Tunisia

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N° 01/2020: Main determinants of private physicians’ location in Algeria: An empirical study
N° 01/2019: An operationalizing theoretical framework for the analysis of universal health coverage reforms: First test on an archetype developing economy
N° 03/2018: Health differentials between citizens and immigrants in Europe: A heterogeneous convergence
N° 01/2018: Measurement of health inequality using welfare decreasing variables
N° 03/2017: Accounting for protest attitudes in WTP for universal health coverage: Evidence from a contingent valuation study in Tunisia.
N° 02/2016: Can a Circular Payment Card Format Effectively Elicit Preferences? Evidence from a Survey on a Mandatory Health Insurance Scheme in Tunisia
N° 01/2016: Medicines and Democracy: The Importance of Institutional Quality in the Relationship between Health Expenditure and Health Outcomes in the MENA Region
N° 03/2015: Potential Market Size and Impact of Hepatitis C Treatment in Low- and Middle-Income Countries
N° 02/2015: Investigating the Dimensions of Youth Wellbeing: An Exploratory Structural Equation Modelling Approach Applied to Palestine

RESEARCH

Boucekkine, R., El Ouardighi, F., & Kogan, K. (2024). Recycling of multi-source waste in an aggregate circular economy. Central European Journal of Operations Research, 32(2), 357-398.

Dobson, A., Ricci, C., Boucekkine, R., Gozzi, F., Fabbri, G., Loch-Temzelides, T., & Pascual, M. (2023). Balancing economic and epidemiological interventions in the early stages of pathogen emergence. Science Advances, 9(21), eade6169.

Boucekkine, R., Ruan, W., & Zou, B. (2023). The irreversible pollution game. Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 120, 102841.

Boukhalfa, C., Ouakhzan, B., Masbah, H., Acharai, L., & Zbiri, S. (2024). Investing in midwifery for sustainable development goals in low-and middle-income countries: a cost-benefit analysis. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 22(1), 1.

Bouaddi, O., Zbiri, S., & Belrhiti, Z. (2023). Interventions to improve migrants’ access to sexual and reproductive health services: a scoping review. BMJ Global Health, 8(6), e011981.

Belrhiti, Z., Bigdeli, M., Lakhal, A., Kaoutar, D., Zbiri, S., & Belabbes, S. (2024). Unravelling collaborative governance dynamics within healthcare networks: a scoping review. Health Policy and Planning, 39(4), 412-428.

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