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كتب هذا المقال أ. مصباح قطب عقد منتدى البحوث الاقتصادية بالتعاون مع شعبة المحررين الاقتصاديين بنقابة الصحفيين، الحلقة النقاشية الثانية من سلسلة الحوار القومى حول مصر المستقبل يوم الأربعاء 30 سبتمبر بمقر المنتدى. أدار الحلقة الدكتور/ أحمد جلال المدير التنفيذي... Read More

The Economic Research Forum (ERF) will hold a conference on women’s social and economic empowerment in the Arab World on October 24-25, 2015, in Cairo, Egypt. The event, hosted in cooperation with Canada’s International Development Research Centre (IDRC), is intended... Read More

Mahmoud El-Gamal, ERF Research Fellow and Rice University Professor of Economics and Statistics  The Gender Gap Runs Deeper than Religion or Education CAPMAS, the official Egyptian statistical agency, announced in 2014 that job market participation rates were three times higher for males (at... Read More

This blog is written by Dr. Zafiris Tzannatos, Senior Consultant for Strategy and Policy   A precondition for effective bargaining (or, as some put it, negotiation) is to have some kind of power. This power can derive from “voice,” whereby... Read More

This blog is written by Political Science Professor and former Parliamentarian Dr. Mona Makram-Ebeid   The effects of the restructuring of traditional state power engendered by globalization on the political, economic and security processes of different countries in the Arab... Read More

The Economic Research Forum (ERF) will hold a conference on Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies on November 4-5, 2015, in Kuwait City, Kuwait. The event, being held in cooperation with the Arab Fund for Economic and Social... Read More

This blog is written by Hoda Selim, an economist at the Economic Research Forum Natural resource wealth has been often blamed for the poor economic and development outcomes in oil-rich Arab countries. It has been claimed that the special characteristics... Read More

The Fiscal-Monetary Interdependence in Oil-Dependent Arab Economies This blog is written by Ibrahim Elbadawi, director of the Macroeconomics Research and Forecasting Department at the Dubai Economic Council and Research Fellow at ERF As part of the ERF research theme on... Read More

Kamiar Mohaddes, ERF Research Fellow and Senior Lecturer and Fellow in Economics at Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK. According to the resource curse paradox, abundance of oil (natural gas, minerals and other non-renewable resources) is believed to be an important determinant... Read More