My experience with PEP was a game-changer
As well as informing policy, undertaking a PEP project leads to career advancement for the majority of researchers. Find out more about PEP’s impact.
For Dr. Belal Fallah, his experience with PEP was “a game-changer.” The training and research experience that he gained through his PEP project led Dr. Fallah to become actively engaged with the Economic Research Forum in Egypt. There, he undertook research relating to refugees of internal conflict in several countries in the Middle East and North Africa. It also opened doors to high-level projects.
“Thanks to my PEP project, I was invited to co-author a paper on the impact of Syrian refugees on the Jordanian labour market,” said Dr. Fallah. The paper was published in the Journal of Development Economics in 2019. “Being a co-author of this paper generated further multiplier effects,” he said, explaining that it led to him now working as a consultant for the World Bank specializing in the Jordanian labour market.
Dr. Fallah led the PEP research team investigating women’s participation in the Palestinian work force. Find out more in the PEP working paper 2019-08 and policy brief 198.
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