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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

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="270" caption="ERF 17th Annual Conference - Panel Plenary Session 2"][/caption] The second plenary session of the ERF 17th Annual Conference addressed today the question “Do Institutional Constraints on Policymakers work?”. Given the nature of the political regimes... Read More

At one point in U.S. history the food and drug association wanted to regulate cigarettes, but it was neither a food nor or a drug! In this instance, an absurd solution was found – using its jurisdiction over medical devices... Read More

Participants of the ERF 17th Annual Conference had today the opportunity to discuss finding of the 2011 World Development Report in the second plenary session of the event. World Bank's Gary Milante presented the audience with a synopsis of the... Read More