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		<title>ERF 22ND ANNUAL CONFERENCE CALL FOR PROPOSALS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dina Mannaa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2015 12:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog is edited by Ahmed Goher (Economic Research Forum) The Economic Research Forum (ERF) announced that is inviting proposals for papers to be presented in ERF’s 22nd Annual Conference, which will be held in Cairo, Egypt, March, 2016. Authors who wish to submit proposals, should be engaged in research on the ERF region (the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>ERF’s 21st Annual Conference Nearing</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dina Mannaa]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2015 13:09:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This blog is written by Ahmed Goher, Economic Research Forum From 2010 to around mid-2012, uprisings swept MENA in what has come to be known as the ‘Arab Spring.’ While bread was at the forefront of the demands of protestors, shouts for freedom and social justice were also heard across the region. It is with [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Macroeconomics, Iran and Egypt experiences</title>
		<link>https://erfblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/24/macroeconomics-iran-and-egypt-experiences/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Haitham el Khouly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Mar 2014 15:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hoda Selim was the discussant for two papers falling under the macroeconomic theme at the ERF 20th Annual Conference. The first paper entitled &#8216;Iran’s inflation Experience: Demand Pressures, External Shocks, and Supply Constraints&#8216; co-authored by Magda Kandil and Ida Mirzaie, showcased the Iranian inflation experience, pressures, shocks and constraints. Although Iran is an oil producing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The issue of capture and the failure of free public services</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Haitham el Khouly]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:28:22 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Day Two of the ERF 20th Anniversary Conference explored comparative experiences of social justice and provided participants with a highly informative and enriching second plenary session. Chaired by Heba Handoussa (Egyptian Network for Integrated Development and ERF), participants heard presentations by Shantayanan Devarajan (World Bank), Mahmoud El-Gamal (Rice University and ERF) and Carlos Eduardo Vélez (Universidad [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Social justice, neo-liberalism and Islamic thought</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:27:07 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mahmoud El-Gamal, the second speaker in today&#8217;s plenary session, tackled themes at the very heart of this year’s conference. Asking what do we mean by social justice, El-Gamal examined theories of neoliberal economics and concepts of social justice from classical economics and Islamic thought.  Addressing whether or not neo-liberalism is compatible with Islamic law and Islamic [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Income inequality: the Latin American experience</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[James]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 18:21:37 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As part of the second plenary looking at &#8216;Comparative Experiences of Social Justice&#8216; Carlos Vélez (Universidad de Los Andes, Colombia) presented a case on inequality in Latin America. Despite relatively high levels of income inequality when compared with other regions, data has revealed a fall in levels of inequality in Latin American countries. These improvements have mostly been witnessed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Welcome Dinner: a celebration of people and powerful ideas</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Megan Lloyd-Laney]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 16:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Welcome and 20th Anniversary Celebration Dinner was held on the first evening of the conference, with  Raed Safadi in place as the Master of Ceremony. He set the tone by picking up on the theme of &#8216;the power of ideas&#8217; and reflecting that ERF started out as &#8220;an idea that turned into a conversation, and then became [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Upgrading and formalizing SMEs in MENA</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Aalaa Naguib]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2014 15:37:41 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) play a key role in the economic structure of developing countries. Which makes sense considering that they are mostly over-populated, their governments are low on budgets and inequality of opportunities is only natural. Economically speaking, SMEs constitute a major source of employment and generate significant domestic and export earnings (OECD, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Alternative perspectives on social justice</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Megan Lloyd-Laney]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2014 19:46:21 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The ERF 20th Anniversary Conference threw its doors open this morning to vibrant discussions around issues of social justice. Widely considered to be one of the main factors fuelling the fires of recent popular unrest in the MENA region, social justice is actually a vaguely understood concept. So where better than Egypt in the year 2014 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Social justice: Going beyond GDP per capita</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Megan Lloyd-Laney]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 22 Mar 2014 18:23:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the Plenary Session at the top of the first day of conference, John E. Roemer criticised classical theories of economic development that focus heavily on GDP per capita as the measure of social justice. He contended that the way to measure economic development was “not through looking at GDP per capita increases but instead at the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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