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This Blog is written by Aalaa Halaka   “Six months ago, I warned about the risk of a ‘new mediocre’—low growth for a long time. Today, we must prevent that new mediocre from becoming the ‘new reality’.” Christine Lagarde, IMF... Read More

During the ERF 24th Annual Conference, Raed Safadi (Dubai Department of Economic Development) participated as discussant in a parallel session on international economics, focusing on trade policy and the MENA region. After the session, we recorded a short interview with... Read More

Rabah Arzeki is the Chief Economist for Middle East and North Africa Region at the World Bank. During the recent ERF 24th Annual Conference he presented in the third plenary session, during which he argued for the foundation of a... Read More

Hadi Salehi Esfahani from the University of Illinois presented in the third and closing panel at the ERF 24th Annual Conference.         According to Mr. Esfahani, the economic development of the MENA region can be achieved through... Read More

Mustapha Nabli (North Africa Bureau of Economic Studies International) took the floor in the third and closing panel at the ERF 24th Annual Conference. After the session, we recorded the short interview below, in which Mr. Nabli shares the main... Read More

H.E. Rania Al-Mashat is the current Minister of Tourism in Egypt and she has an extensive experience on monetary policy, having worked at the Central Bank of Egypt on developing and modernizing Egypt’s monetary policy strategy.   During the ERF... Read More

The second plenary session at the ERF 24th Annual Conference featured a keynote speech from Raimundo Soto, Associate Professor of Economics at the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (UC).     According to Prof. Soto, the real issue not about... Read More

Understanding the Asian economic growth miracle has been -and continues to be- a topic of great interest for economists around the globe. East Asian countries have witnessed dramatic economic as well as social development, following an unconventional path from the... Read More

By  Vladimir Hlasny and Shireen Al Azzawi Measures of income or consumption alone provide an inadequate representation of living standards and economic inequality across households. This column reports evidence on..more