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By Aalaa Halaka   The closing session of ERF’s 25th annual conference celebrated a number recently published books by ERF fellows. Dr Jeffrey Nugent from the University of Southern California talked to us about the second volume of “Institutions and... Read More

By Aalaa Halaka “Data for research is like roads for a city, where you have to build a road despite not knowing who’s going to use the road and where they’re going to go with it. It’s exactly the same... Read More

ERF and LIS are pleased to announce a call for proposals on “Inequality trends around the Mediterranean.” Selected authors will present their papers during ERF-LIS first conference by November 2019. Interested researchers are invited to submit their proposals by April... Read More

By Jaime de Melo In a week that marks the anniversary of the treaty for an African continental free trade area, signed in Kigali on 18 March 2018, this column asks whether it is a turning point on the road towards... Read More

By Aalaa Halaka   Dr. Ishac Diwan is a visiting professor at SIPA Columbia University, and the chair d’excellence monde Arabe at Paris Sciences et Lettres. He was a discussant on the 3rd plenary session of our 25th annual conference... Read More

By Romesh   Day 3 of ERF’s 25th annual conference began with a plenary discussion of job-creating growth in the emerging global economy. Keynote speaker Lant Pritchett of the Blavatnik School of Government at the University of Oxford began by... Read More