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Jaime de Melo, former professor at the University of Geneva, chaired a parallel session focusing on fiscal policy during the ERF 24th Annual Conference.     In his words, the session was extremely important especially for MENA countries but also... Read More

Hamid Mohtadi from University of Wisconsin an University of Minnesota was the discussant of two papers about role of government spending in economic growth, presented at the ERF 24th Annual Conference.   The two papers were using more up-to-date methodologies... Read More

Gouda Abdel-Khalek is Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Science at Cairo University. At the ERF 24th Annual Conference, he participated as a discussant in the first plenary session, focusing on the lessons from the Asian... Read More

Atif Kubursi is Professor Emeritus of Economics at McMaster University. After the first plenary session at ERF 24th Annual Conference we had the opportunity to record a short video interview with him and capture his impressions form the session. According... Read More

Diaa Noureldin from the American University in Cairo participated as discussant in the first session at the ERF 24th Annual Conference. The session focused on the lessons from the Asian experience that could be useful for sustained growth in the... Read More

Keun Lee, Professor of Economics at the Seoul National University, was the keynote speaker in the first session of the ERF 24th Annual Conference. In his presentation, Prof. Lee focused on lessons from the Asian experience that could be useful... Read More

By Khalid Abu-Ismail and Racha Ramadan There are many gaps in our understanding of trends in both money metric inequality and multidimensional inequality in Arab states. This column previews a..more

By Paul Makdissi For institutional and historical reasons, countries of the Middle East and North Africa have relied mostly on consumption subsidies for reducing inequality..more

By Rabah Arezki, Raouf Boucekkine, Jeffrey Frankel, Mohammed Laksaci and Frederick van der Ploeg After years of high commodity prices, a new era of lower prices, especially for oil, will be challenging for resource-rich countries, which must cope with the decline... Read More