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Connecting People and Ideas... Through its impartial, independent and timely analysis of economic problems on the one hand and a well-established publications process on the other, ERF seeks maximize impact of development research and to inform policy debate and policy discussions. Our portfolio includes a Series of Working Papers and Series of Policy Reports, Policy Briefs and Policy Perspectives.
Latest ERF Publications
Full List of ERF Publications
Can Unconditional Cash Transfers Mitigate the Impact of Armed Conflict on Child Nutrition in Yemen?
The “ignored” civil war in Yemen has caused the world’s worst humanitarian crisis in recent... Read More
Human Capital Index (HCI) – From Uncertainty to Robustness of Comparisons
In 2019, the World Bank adopted an index developed by Kraay (2018), the Human Capital... Read More
Immigration and Inter-Regional Job Mobility: Evidence from Syrian Refugees in Turkey
We analyze the relationship between large-scale refugee inflows and the inter-regional job mobility of natives.... Read More
Armed Conflict and Household Source of Water
Using pairing of household level and armed conflict data with a generalized difference-indifferences approach, we... Read More
Measuring the Economic Cost of Conflict in Afflicted Arab Countries
The goal of this paper is to estimate the economic cost of conflict in selected... Read More
Geographical Exposure to Conflicts and Firm Performance: Evidence from The MENA Region
This paper assesses the impact of insecurity generated by conflicts on firm performance in the... Read More
The Impact of Cash Transfers on Syrian Refugee Children in Lebanon
This paper was commissioned and funded by the Economic Research Forum. The paper builds on... Read More
The Impact of COVID-19 on Middle Eastern and North African Labor Markets: Vulnerable Workers, Small Entrepreneurs, and Farmers Bear the Brunt of the Pandemic in Morocco and Tunisia
In a nutshell Due to COVID-19, wage workers in Morocco and Tunisia have lost jobs,... Read More
MEDJ – ERF Middle East Development Journal: December 2020
Job creation or labor absorption? An analysis of private sector job growth in Egypt Ragui... Read More