Amirah El-Haddad
Senior Economist, German Development Institute and Professor of Economics, Cairo University
Amirah El-Haddad is senior economist at the German Development Institute and Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences, Cairo University. She specializes in industrial organization, industrial policy, wage inequality, political economy of the Arab World and of Egypt in particular. She recently published on the Social Contract in World Development, on the link between informality and inequality in Applied Economics, on sector identification for Egypt and Tunisia using the Product Space Methodology in the Review of Middle East Economics and Finance and on the welfare effects of institutional and regulatory reform in public utilities particularly the telecommunication sector in the Journal of Development Effectiveness and Utilities Policy. She published several policy papers and reports on textiles and clothing, the automotive industry and the structural transformation of the industrial sector. She holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park (2005).
Areas of Interest:
- Industrial Organization-Industrial Policy
- Political Economy
- Labour Markets and Informality
- Development Economics
Education:
- Ph.D., Economics, University of Maryland at College Park, USA, 2005
- M.A., Economics of Development (with merit), Institute of Social Studies, The Hague, The Netherlands, 1997
- B.Sc., Economics, Faculty of Economics & Political Sciences, Cairo University, 1993
- German School in Dokki Highschool (DEO)
Experience:
- Senior Economist/Researcher German Development Institute (DIE, Bonn, Germany)-present
- Professor, Economics Department, Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (FEPS), Cairo University, Egypt-present.
- Visiting Fellow, Stanford University, California USA-Feb 2015.
- Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Public Policy and Administration, School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, The American University in Cairo, Egypt-2014.
Latest Publications:
- El-Haddad, A. (2020) Picking Winners: Identifying Leading Sectors for Egypt and Tunisia Using the Product Space Methodology. Review of Middle East Economics and Finance 16(1). De Gruyter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/rmeef-2019-0015
- El-Haddad, A. and M. Gadallah (2020). The informalization of the Egyptian economy (1998-2012): a driver of growing wage inequality. Applied Economicshttps://doi.org/10.1080/00036846.2020.1796917
- Black. A, Roy. P, El-Haddad. A. and K.Yilmaz. The political economy of automotive industry development policy in middle income countries: A comparative analysis of Egypt, India, South Africa and Turkey. Effective States and Inclusive Development Research Center (ESID) Working Paper Series. ESID Working Paper 143. University of Manchester. http://www.effective-states.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/esid_wp_143_black_roy_haddad_yilmaz.final_.pdf
- El-Haddad, A. (2020). Redefining the social contract in the wake of the Arab Spring: The experiences of Egypt, Morocco and Tunisia. World Development. Vol. 127 104774. https://authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S0305750X19304231
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Firm Dynamics in Times of COVID: Evidence from Egyptian Firms
Areas of Interest: Industrial Organization-Industrial Policy Political Economy Labour Markets and Informality Development Economics Education: Ph.D., Economics, University... Read More
September, 2022
Working PapersPost Covid-19 Firm-Level Government Support in Egypt: Uneven Allocation and Unequal Effects
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August, 2022
Working PapersStorm Survivors: Evidence from Firms in Times of Pandemic
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March, 2022
ERF 28th Annual ConferenceFirm Closures and Performance in A Time of Pandemic
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January, 2022
Working PapersMicro, Small and Medium Enterprise in the Arab Region in 2020: Structural Vulnerabilities at a Time of Multiple Shocks: The Cases of Kuwait, Jordan and Morocco (This paper is part of a UNDP funded project covered under UNDP’s copyright)
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March, 2021
Conference PaperEgypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2023
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2023-01-15
Regulatory Reform in Public Utilities: Have Reforms Resulted in Increased Competition, Market Efficiency and Higher Welfare?
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2012-01-01
From Data to Policy: Evidence and Insights from The Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey 2023
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Nov 24, 2024
ERF 29th Annual Conference: The Future of MENA Development Path: Risks and Opportunities in an Emerging World Order
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May 04, 2023
Revisiting Macroeconomic Management in Times of Crisis and Beyond – Parallel Sessions – March 27
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Mar 26, 2022
Identifying Activities for Greater Employment Generation in Egypt: An Input-Output Analysis
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Mar 03, 2022
The GCC Economies in the Wake of COVID19: Charting the Road to Recovery and Resilience
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Mar 09, 2021