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by  Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim The COVID-19 pandemic is a massive shock to the world economy and its impact will be wide-ranging across all domains of life. This column examines some of the potential effects – from the household level through... Read More

by Sarah El-Khishin   The COVID-19 outbreak interrupts a remarkable but short-lived improvement in Egypt’s economic performance following the implementation of recent reforms supported by the International Monetary Fund. This column outlines essential countercyclical measures to accommodate the likely economic damage... Read More

by Orkun Saka and Çağatay Bircan It has long been understood that incumbent politicians are likely to have incentives to manipulate fiscal policy around election times to improve economic circumstances. This column reports evidence from Turkey indicating that election cycles in recent years... Read More

by Ishac Diwan                            March 11, 2020 An independent group of development specialists, economists and finance experts met in Beirut in late December to discuss Lebanon’s economic crisis and the... Read More

by Rabah Arezki and Ha Nguyen The novel coronavirus, which first emerged in China in late 2019, has the potential to disrupt the economies of the Middle East and North Africa ...more  

by Sherine Farouk Ghoneim and Romesh Vaitilingam ERF’s annual conference has become the premier regional event for economists of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This column previews the 2020 conference, which was due to take place in Luxor, Egypt, in March... Read More