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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

The second plenary session of the ERF 17th Annual Conference provided participants with three different but equally interesting perspectives addressing the question: Do Institutional Constraints on Policy-makers Work? The session was moderated by Caroline Freund, World Bank Chief Economist for the Middle... Read More

L’une des sessions parallèles, tenues au cours de la 17ème conférence annuelle, fut consacrée au sujet des Economies Institutionnelles “L’Economie Politique et le Développement Humain”. Hind Hourmat Allah et Brahim El Morchid ont présenté un papier sur « L’économie politique des... Read More

Mahmoud Sami Nabi from the Polytechnic School of Tunis participated in the ERF 17th Annual Conference, where he presented a paper on the resilience of Islamic banks to the financial crisis. According to the findings of his research, before the... Read More

[caption id="" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="ERF 17th Annual Conference - Panel Plenary Session 1"][/caption] Lack of democracy has arguably contributed to the lag in major aspects of Arab development, but as the Arab region contemplates its democratic future, on the back... Read More