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ERF is pleased to announce the dissemination of Five New Harmonized Labor Force Surveys (HLFS); Two for Jordan 2008 and 2011; and Three for Palestine 2006, 2007 and 2008. The English versions of the Survey Methodology for HIECS Egypt 1999... Read More

The Economic Research Forum (ERF) is pleased to announce the launch of its new website. This is a Beta version and while it is already "live," this is only the first phase and more pages, further developments and additional content will be... Read More

The ERF family also wishes you a happy new year!

ERF, USC Dornsife and Institute for New Economic Thinking invite you to submit papers for a conference on April 1-2, 2016. Deadline for submissions: January 20, 2016. The conference will feature sessions on Oil Shocks and the Global Economy, Sovereign... Read More

Watch Ahmed Galal's talk at the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) Global Policy Forum, November 2015

The next ABCDE will take place on June 20-21, 2016 at World Bank Headquarters in Washington, D.C. The theme of the conference will be “Data and Development”. The age of data is here to stay. New technologies are digitizing and... Read More

Daniel Kaufmann, Senior Fellow, Brookings Institution Governance, aid and corruption in transition: Taking state capture seriously Evidence suggests that over the past decade, misgovernance in the Arab world was not only acute, but also worsened over time.  Yet this poor... Read More