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ERF's 22nd Annual Conference kicked off on March 19. This year’s conference is set to last for three days and explores the development models followed by Arab countries before the uprisings and evaluate why these strategies failed to convince the majority... Read More

ERF held a special event on 'Labor Markets' chaired by Koç University's Insan Tunali on March 19 in the context of the 22nd Annual Conference. The session featured presentations by the University of Minnesota's Ragui Assaad, the University of Southampton's... Read More

In collaboration with the University of Southern California (USC) and the Institute for New Economic Thinking (INET), ERF is organizing two sessions at the conference on “Oil, Middle East, and the Global Economy,” that will take place at the USC,... Read More

By Richard Freeman, Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard University. This week Google's alphaGo artificial intelligence program defeated human champion Lee Se-dol in the ancient game of Go.  This triumph of artificial intelligence follows computers beating humans in Jeopardy,... Read More

By Joost Hiltermann is Program Director, Middle East and  North Africa, at the International Crisis Group. The economic challenges faced by states and societies in the Middle East and North Africa are enormous even in the best of times. But today... Read More