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By Haitham el Khouly and Shahira Emara Fighting corruption in developing countries is a challenge. However, information can be an extremely powerful tool in exposing corruption. In emerging and transition countries, the balance of information between government and citizens is... Read More

Individuals with low education in Egypt, are subject to one job career which gives them very little opportunity for improving life standards. This was one of the findings of the paper  Structural labor market transitions and wage dispersion in Egypt... Read More

After having looked into the issues of measurement and consequences of corruption, and its determinants, the third plenary session of the ERF's 18th Annual Conference focused on how to fight corruption. Ziad Ahmed Bahaa-Eldin, Member of Egyptian People's Assembly, underlined the need... Read More

On the second day of the Economic Research Forum’s Annual Conference, we recorded a short interview with Hillary Johnson and got her feedback on the timely theme of the conference: corruption. Johnson stresses on the importance of communication between researchers... Read More

On the second day of the RF’s 18th Annual Conference , we caught up with Omniea Helmy, the Chairperson at a parallel session on Economic Growth in Turkey and the MENA region. Two papers were discussed in the meeting, the first... Read More

In the second day of the  ERF’s 18th Annual Conference one parallel sessions examined  the topic of Globalization, Labor Demand and Technological Upgrading.  Two papers were discussed. The first paper, Globalization and Movement up the Technological Ladder: Evidence for Jordan and Tunisia Using... Read More

Corruption needs to be better understood, especially in transition economies. The informal sector is often synonymous with corruption, and as a result is often treated with distain by the international policy community. However, there is growing evidence that the informal... Read More

Where do we see corruption being most common in the MENA region? Which countries are most affected? What types of activities and  sectors? And most importantly, what might be the breeding corruption in the region? These questions posed by Jeffrey Nugent (University... Read More

Debates about the risks of banking are increasingly open as financial crises keep striking.  A parallel session at the ERF 18th Annual Conference helped to shed some light on these issues. Two papers were presented in the session. The first paper,... Read More