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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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The Prospects of The Green Transition in The Arab Region: State-Society Actors, Power Relations, Interests and Coordination
This paper investigates how the comparative power of various state and society actors and their... Read More
The Incidence and Wage Penalty of Overqualification: The Case of Egypt
The phenomenon of overqualification is becoming increasingly common across many countries. This research study examines... Read More
Does The Trillion-Dollar Cost of Sanctions Matter for Iranian Economic Development?
This paper estimates the economic cost of sanctions on Iran (both aggregate and per capita)... Read More
Revisiting Economic Diversification: A Cross-country Analysis
The existing literature on development and economic diversification finds an inverted-U function between these two... Read More
Long Shadows of the Walking Dead on Economic Activity
This paper presents the panorama of zombie firms in the Turkish economy, which are highly... Read More
From Flow to Fortune? The Economic Impacts of Agricultural Dams
We examine the economic effects of agricultural dams for Iran. To estimate the benefits of... Read More
Income Shocks, Bride Price and Child Marriage in Turkey
Early marriage persists in many countries despite legal prohibition. We investigate the role of income... Read More
Employment Generation Capacity of Renewable Energy in MENA
In a nutshell: The adoption of green energy technologies necessitates the establishment of new supporting... Read More
Navigating the Green Energy Transition in the MENA Region
In a nutshell: The MENA region’s over-reliance on hydrocarbon exports has led to serious economic... Read More