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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
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Muslim Youth Unemployment and Expat Jihadism- Bored to Death?
While the presence of foreign fighters in military conflict has been a regular ingredient of... Read More
Currency-Plus-Commodity Basket: A Proposal for a New Exchange Rate Arrangement for Gulf Oil-Exporting Countries
In a nutshell • Oil-exporting countries have experienced huge swings in the dollar price of... Read More
The Political Realities of Economic Reform in the Gulf Monarchies
In a nutshell • Economic diversification in the Gulf Cooperation Council monarchies requires labor market... Read More
Corruption and Economic Development” Selected Papers from The Economic Research Forum 18th Annual Conference
Two years into the Arab revolutions, much of ERF’s region is still in search of... Read More
Politics and Economic Development: Selected Papers from The Economic Research Forum 17th Annual Conference
It has been a long time since one calendar year witnessed so many changes and... Read More
The Political Economy of A Sector in Crisis: Industrial Policy and Political Connections in the Egyptian Automotive Industry
The Egyptian automotive industry developed under the country’s policy of import substitution industrialization (ISI). It... Read More
The Currency-Plus-Commodity Basket: A Proposal for Exchange Rates in Oil-exporting Countries to Accommodate Trade Shocks Automatically
The paper proposes an exchange rate regime for oil-exporting countries. The goal is to achieve... Read More
The Impact of the Fracking Boom on Arab Oil Producers
This paper makes four contributions. First, it investigates the extent to which the U.S. fracking... Read More
The Regional Impact of Trade Liberalization on Households in Egypt, 1999-2012
This paper assesses the impact of trade liberalization in Egypt by comparing regions more exposed... Read More