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On December 23, 2012 (ERF) held a workshop on The Challenge of Urbanization in the ERF Region. The workshop is part of 12th Round of the Regional Research Competition supported by the Global Development Network (GDN). Rapid urbanization creates many... Read More

The Economic Research Forum (ERF) held a workshop on Capital and Labor Mobility within the ERF Region on October 14th, 2012. The workshop was held under the theme of Integration of the Arab Region. Integration is seen as covering any... Read More

By Ramage Nada “An Analysis of the Mobile Telephone Sector in MENA: Potential for Deregulation And Privatization” The first session of the seminar kicked off with a presentation for a study on An Analysis of the Mobile Telephone Sector in... Read More

The Economic Research Forum (ERF) held a seminar on Efficiency and Equity of Utilities in the ERF Region under the 10th Round of the Regional Research Competition supported by the Global Development Network (GDN) on October 11th, 2012, in Cairo,... Read More

Corruption is unethical. But it may also have deleterious effects on economic development, breeding negative work ethics and leading to waste and misallocation of resources as well as adverse distribution of income and wealth. The  ERF’s 18th Annual Conference explored the... Read More

by Caroline Freund, posted in the World Bank MENA blog Reducing corruption requires integrity and economic growth. This was the main message I took from the Economic Research Forum's (ERF) annual conference in Cairo this week focused on eradicating corruption.... Read More

The fourth and final plenary session at the Economic Research Forum's Annual Conference on Corruption and Economic Development was dedicated to granting awards to distinguished papers presented for the Conference. Abstracts and papers presented went through a highly selective screening... Read More

Why do people need to identify themselves with the law? What kind of effect do education, location and religion have on the way people react towards legal reforms? How do women in Morocco react in response to legal reforms? Is... Read More

تم ترجمة هذا النص بمعرفة رماج ندا تمثل محاربة الفساد في البلدان النامية تحديا، إلا أن المعلومات يمكن أن تشكل أداة قوية في الكشف عن الفساد. في البلدان الناشئة والتي تمر بمرحلة انتقالية، تكون إمكانية الحصول على المعلومات لصالح الحكومات،... Read More