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After a warm welcome by Abdullatif Al-Hamad, Director General and Chairman of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development,  Mr. Mohammed Al-Sabah, Former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, opened the proceedings of the conference "Understanding and... Read More

Organized jointly by the Economic Research Forum and the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, the conference “Understanding and Avoiding the Oil Curse in the Arab World” will be held in Kuwait on January 15-16, 2012 and will convene around... Read More

During the last day of the ERF 17th Conference, we had the great pleasure and opportunity to record a short interview with Mr. Abdlatif Al-Hamad, ERF Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development.... Read More

Not only the ERF annual conferences provide a platform for economists and professionals in related disciplines across the region to discuss the most pressing development challenges facing the Arab world, but it also provide an avenue for the presentation and... Read More

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="ERF 17th Annual Conference - Panel Plenary Session 3"][/caption] Mustapha Nabli (The Central Bank, Tunisia) began plenary 3 by stating “these have been wild months – our own Mediterranean tsunami”, but what next for new emerging... Read More

The events currently underway in Libya have had their effect on the psyche of Tarik Yousef (Dubai School of Government) " for over 40 years I have possessed no sense of national pride, until now. Now I feel like telling... Read More

Inspired by the recent developments in the Arab region, the third plenary session of the ERF 17th Annual Conference explored the drivers and dynamics of political and economic transformation, with a special focus on the ERF region.  The session was moderated... Read More

During the ERF 17th Annual Conference Francesca Marchetta from the Robert Schuman Centre (EUI), Centre d’Etude et de Recherches sur le Development International (CERDI) presented a paper on the survival of entrepreneurial activities particularly role of migration activities.Looking at the Egyptian labor... Read More

The parallel sessions « Labor and Human Development » at the ERF 17th Annual Conference focused on the role of women in the labor market . In her paper, Fatma El-Hamidi addressed the question “How do women entrepreneurs perform? Empirical Evidence from Egypt”.... Read More