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ERF to Hold Second National Dialogue on the Relationship between Political and Economic Reform in Egypt
The Economic Research Forum (ERF) will hold a national dialogue under the title “Between Political Reform and Economic Development…Egypt the Future” on September 30, 2015. The event emanates from ERF’s understanding of the importance of having a serious discussion on... Read More
بين الاصلاح السياسى والتنمية الاقتصادية .. حوار حول مستقبل مصر
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
ERF Conference to Explore Women’s Empowerment in the Arab World
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
The Gender Gap Runs Deeper
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
The Empowerment of Women in the Household starts with their Empowerment in the Market
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
Religion: A Plural Reality with Multiple Meanings
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
ERF to Hold Kuwait Conference on Monetary and Fiscal Institutions in Resource-Rich Arab Economies
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
Institutions, Oil and Macroeconomic Management… What Does it Take to End the Resource Curse?
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
It Takes Two Functioning Cylinders to Operate the Macroeconomic Locomotive
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