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By Niranjan Sarangi and Khalid Abu-Ismail Arab countries have systematically low tax collection rates relative to the size of their economies. What’s more, with rising military expenditures and lower oil prices, the public budgets of the oil-rich states are coming under... Read More

This Conference will aim to provide a forum for debate among academic researchers, doctoral students and practitioners from around the world on financial implications of sustainability and corporate social responsibility issues. It will also provide a valuable platform for presenting... Read More

ERF is pleased to announce the dissemination of the Survey of Young People in Informal Urban Areas of Greater Cairo, SYPE-IGC 2016.   The SYPE-IGC 2016 was designed to be comparable with the Population Council's two previous nationally representative longitudinal... Read More

By Hamid Mohtadi Large endowments of natural resources can be both a blessing and a curse: the key to having them be the former rather than the latter lies in good institutions that limit the power of interest groups and kleptocrats..more

By Nora Aboushady and Chahir Zaki Despite significant reforms taken by the Egyptian government to liberalise markets and enhance the business environment, political factors continue to affect firms’ capacity to export. This column reports research on..more

By Ahmed Elsayed and Jackline Wahba How was the balance between Egypt’s formal and informal economies affected by the political turmoil that accompanied the Arab Spring? This column reports research showing that the number of jobs with no contract or... Read More

By Juan Jose Cortina , Sergio Schmukler and  Soha Ismail How do firms in Arab countries use equity, corporate bond and syndicated loan markets to obtain finance? This column reports research that provides a first..more

By Meltem Diyagolu , Murat Kirdar and  İsmet Koç A policy reform in Turkey in 1997 extended the length of compulsory schooling from five to eight years, a measure that involved substantial public investment in school infrastructure. This column reports research... Read More

By Alissa Amico A decade ago, Middle Eastern sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) burst onto the global financial scene, raising eyebrows as they gobbled up assets in Europe and North America. But, as this Project Syndicate column argues, the world in which... Read More