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By Romesh Vaitilingam   Day 2 of ERF’s 25 th annual conference began with a plenary discussion of the role of knowledge in the process of innovation in the new global economy. Keynote speaker Rohinton Medhora, president of the Centre... Read More

By Aalaa Halaka   Barbara Shenstone is the regional director of IDRC in MENA. She was a panelist on the 1st plenary session of our 25th annual conference in Kuwait. Following the theme of the plenary session “Knowledge, Economic Networks,... Read More

By Aalaa Halaka   Sir Paul Collier, professor of economics and public policy at the Blavantik School of Government, University of Oxford, was our keynote speaker on the 1st plenary session of our 25th annual conference in Kuwait. The theme... Read More

By Aalaa Halaka   Khalid Abu Ismail heads the economic development and poverty section at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (UNESCWA). He is also an ERF Policy Affiliate. Dr. Abu Ismail has collaborated with ERF on... Read More

By Ibrahim Elbadawi and Sherine F. Ghoneim ERF’s annual conference has become the premier regional event for economists of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). This column previews the 2019 conference..more

By Anna Ferragina Clustering of economic activity has long been seen as an important way to boost employment, innovation and productivity. This column reports FEMISE research evidence for the..more  

By Cevat Giray Aksoy, Çağatay Bircan and Elisa Wirsching Ever since Benjamin Franklin’s observation in the late eighteenth century that people wasted daylight by sleeping after sunrise and squandered wax by burning candles in the evening..more

By Mark Esposito, Artem Altukhov and Alejandro Pereda Shulguin A comparison between two economic indicators shows how competitiveness is more closely related to social progress than to GDP..more