Ibrahim Elbadawi
Managing Director, Economic Research Forum
Ibrahim Elbadawi is the Managing Director of the Economic Research Forum (since January 2017- August 2019; August 2020- present). Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Republic of Sudan (Sept 2019-July 2020). Professor Emeritus, University of Khartoum. Before that he was Director at the Economic Policy & Research Center, the Dubai Economic Council (2009-2016); Lead Economist at the Development Research Group of the World Bank, which he joined in 1989; and Professor of economics at the University of Gezira in Sudan. He holds a PhD in economics and statistics from North Carolina State and Northwestern universities in the USA. During his work at the World Bank he also served as Research Director of the African Economic Research Consortium (Nairobi, 1993-1998), on external leave from the Bank. He has edited 13 books and special editions of referred journal and published about 90 articles on macroeconomics, growth and development policy, democratic transitions and the economics of civil wars and post-conflict transitions. His regional specialization covers Africa and the Middle East. He is also a (non-resident) research fellow with the Center for Global Development. Dr. Elbadawi is the editor of (with Hoda Selim) of: Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in Resource-rich Arab Economies (Cambridge University Press, 2016); and, Ibrahim Elbadawi (with Samir Makdisi). Democratic Transitions in the Arab World. (Cambridge University Press: 2016).
- Macroeconomic Policy
- Foreign Exchange Rate Policy
- Labor Market
- Ph.D., Statistics and Economics, North Carolina State University, USA, 1983
- M.Sc., Statistics, North Carolina State University, USA, 1981
- Managing Director, Economic Research Forum (ERF), 2017-present
- Director, Macroeconomic Research Department, Economic Policy & Research Institute, Dubai Economic Council, 2009-2016
- Lead Economist, Development Economic Research Group (DECRG), The World Bank, 2000-2009
- Manager, Regional Program for Enterprise Development, Africa Region, The World Bank, 2001-2004
- Elbadawi, I., H. Esfahani and H. Kheir-El-Din (editors): “Economic Policy and Performance in the Middle East and North Africa: Essays in Honor of Heba Handoussa.” Special Issue of The Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance (February, 2007): Vol. 46, Issue 5: 653-852.
- Elbadawi, Ibrahim and Håvard Hegre (2007), “Globalization, Economic Shocks, and Armed Conflict.” Defense and Peace Economics (forthcoming).
- Elbadawi, I., T. Mengistae, T. Temesgen and A. Zeufack (2007)," Economic Geography and Manufacturing Productivity in Africa: An Analysis of Firm Level Data," (forthcoming) in The Journal of Developing Areas.
Post-Conflict Reconstruction, Stabilization and Growth Agenda for Sudan
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November, 2023
Working PapersThe Sudan Syndrome: State-Society Contests and The Future of Democracy After The December 2018 Revolution
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August, 2023
Working PapersEmbarking on a Path of Renewal: MENA Commission on Stabilization and Growth
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October, 2022
Policy Research ReportsSudan’s Challenges and Opportunities: A Renaissance Project for Sudan
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July, 2022
Policy Research ReportsConditional Convergence in Agricultural Productivity: The Case of Sudan
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October, 2021
Working PapersStabilization and Adjustment: Towards Inclusive and Sustainable Policies in MENA
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2021-12-01
Sovereign wealth funds: stabilization, investment strategies and lessons for oil-rich Arab economies
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2015-06-15
Undervaluation and firm-level exports diversification in Arab countries
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2014-06-15
Democracy, Democratic Consolidation and Military Spending
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2014-01-01
Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse
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2012-01-01
ERF 30th Annual Conference: Tragedies of Regional Conflicts and Promises of Peacebuilding
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Apr 21, 2024
Balancing Act: Jobs and Wages in the Middle East and North Africa When Crises Hit – Seminar on the World Bank’s MENA Economic Update
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Nov 29, 2023
Reimagining Social Protection in MENA
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Nov 19, 2023
ERF Special Session: GCC Economies in an Era of Energy Transition
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Nov 04, 2023
GCC Economies in an Era of Energy Transition – Third ERF GCC Conference
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Oct 30, 2023