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By Caroline Krafft and Halimat Alawode Attainment of higher education is strikingly unequal in Egypt and Tunisia, and a little less so in Jordan. This column reports research showing that more...

By Amyra Asamoah, Emine Hanedar and Baoping Shang Despite a growing global consensus about the need for reform of costly and environmentally damaging energy price subsidies, many countries remain resistant. more...

By Shanta Devarajan Comparing the experiences of MENA and East Asia in recent decades reveals the delicate nature of the latter’s remarkable structural transformation: more...

By Mouna Cherkaoui An ERF survey conducted in September 2017 collected the views of leading economists on whether new industrial and regional policies are needed in the Arab countries, Iran and Turkey. more...

The Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics (ABCDE), organized by the World Bank Development Economics (DEC) Vice Presidency, is one of the world's best known series of conferences for the presentation and discussion of new knowledge on development. The conference... Read More

By Melani Cammett Under what circumstances is a country most likely to make a successful transition to democracy? This column outlines the roles of both human agency and more...

By Hassan Hakimian The first ten years of the twenty-first century saw an unprecedented surge in oil prices and highly favourable incomes for oil-exporting countries in the Middle East more...

By Roy Van der Weide, Christoph Lakner and Elena Ianchovichina Standard estimates of income and consumption inequality rank Egypt as one of the world’s most equal countries. By analysing data on house prices to obtain a more accurate estimate more...

By Subidey Togan The World Trade Organization’s Agreement on Government Procurement aims to ensure that public procurements in signatory countries are conducted in a competitive more...