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Welcome to the MENA Window

Arab Spatial: An Online, Interactive Atlas of the Arab World

Arab Spatial is a new online information storehouse that aggregates food security and development information from the region’s governments as well as international institutions. The tool displays the data on maps that users can zoom in on to the regional national, sub-national, and even the pixel level. The tool permits the users to click through 22 countries of the Arab world to view information on 100 indicators. It is developed by IFPRI with support from the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD) and the CGIAR Program on Policies, Institutions and Markets (PIM).


Last updated Tuesday,  11 June, 2013

Open Access Micro Data Initiative (OAMDI)

OAMDI offers researchers several types of micro data that ERF has collected, harmonized and prepared for dissemination in a convenient automated process. The first phase of the initiative covers 17 Household Income and Expenditure Surveys from 3 Arab countries, 3 Labor Market Panel Surveys from Egypt and Jordan, and a data set on micro and small enterprises from 4 countries. More data sets will be available in the near future. The initiative, which involved cooperation with several regional statistical agencies, is modeled on the World Bank Open Data initiative.

Politics and ideas

Politics & Ideas: a think net is a Southern-led joint initiative of researchers and practitioners to produce and share innovative knowledge linking ideas and politics in developing and emerging economies. Its mission is to critically address the relations between ideas, research, and politics to support a more constructive use of research-based evidence in policy making. It encourages researchers and practitioners to identify their own challenges and share their perspectives about policy making as they encounter them at the local, national and regional levels.

The website brings together various activities and outputs produced by Politics & Ideas as well as others, including research papers, case studies, handouts, how-to-guides, literature reviews, etc. The research agenda covers many topics and research questions: politics, ideas, communications, capacity development and funding.

ERF 20th Annual Conference: Call for Papers

The Economic Research Forum (ERF) is holding its 20th Annual Conference in Cairo, Egypt, March, 2014. This date also marks ERF 20th anniversary. The organizing committee is pleased to invite submissions of proposals according to the outline given below. Invitees should be engaged in research on the ERF region (the Arab countries, Iran and Turkey), whether they are affiliates of ERF or not. Previously published papers or those accepted for publication may not be submitted.
Deadline for submissions: June 25, 2013

Researchers in MENA


Latest Research Papers from MENA

The Arab world online: Trends in internet usage in the Arab region
Examining internet usage trends in the Arab region
2013
Produced by: Dubai School of Government, United Arab Emirates
Themes: Development Finance & Aid Effectiveness, Governance, Information & Communications Technology (ICT), Innovation, Labor & Social Protections, Private Sector Development, Urban Development and the Global South

The Jordanian elections: No more than deepening the crisis
Why does the regime try its best to maintain its monopoly on power by impeding the development of Jordan’s political and social infrastructures?
By Obeidat, S., 2013
Produced by: Arab Reform Initiative (ARI)
Countries: Jordan
Themes: Development Finance & Aid Effectiveness, Labor & Social Protections, Private Sector Development, Urban Development and the Global South


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Latest Organizations from MENA

Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (PSR)
Gaza and West Bank
Empirical research to advance scholarship and understanding

Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED)
Lebanon
Better and wider understanding of environmental issues in the Arab world


About the Mena Window

               


The GDNet MENA (Middle East & North Africa) window features news, funding opportunities, policy related social science research papers from the MENA countries, and profiles of researchers and organizations based in the region. GDNet’s Regional Network Partner for the region is the Economic Research Forum (ERF). The MENA window is fully available in Arabic, and you can now connect with us at www.gdnet.org/~mena

"It’s been a momentous year for the Arab world and the transformation from autocracies to democracies will probably not be an easy one for any of the countries", Arab Awakening on ERF Website


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