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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.
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Institutions and Macroeconomic Policies in Resource-Rich Arab Economies
Edited by Kamiar Mohaddes, Jeffrey B. Nugent, and Hoda Selim A reliable and quality resource for students, academics... Read More
Crony Capitalism in the Middle East – Business and Politics from Liberalization to the Arab Spring
Edited by Ishac Diwan, Adeel Malik, and Izak Atiyas Uses rich empirical analysis unparalleled in the literature on... Read More
Policy choices in an era of intangibles- where to start?
Based on the author’s keynote talk at the ERF’s 25th anniversary conference in Kuwait City... Read More
The impact of militarization on gender inequality and female labor force participation
Feminist research has revealed significant relationships between militarization, patriarchy, and gender inequality. This paper takes that... Read More
Intimate partner violence against women in Turkey: evidence from a national household survey
According to the World Health Organization (WHO, 2018), one in three women has experienced physical... Read More
The Impacts of Oil Price Shocks on Tourism Receipts for Selected MENA Countries: Do Structural Breaks Matter?
One of the short comings in the tourism literature is that research on the oil... Read More
Are politically connected firms turtles or gazelles? Evidence from the Egyptian uprising
Using an original firm-level database and utilizing the incidence of the Egyptian uprising of 2011,... Read More
Returns to Investment in Education: The Case of Turkey
This paper estimates private and social returns to investment in education in Turkey, using the... Read More
Winners and Losers in Industrial Policy 2.0: An evaluation of the impacts of the Tunisian Industrial Upgrading Program
Large scale business subsidies tied to national industrial development promotion pro-grams are notoriously difficult to... Read More