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| Conference on Inequality in the Arab Region, December 10, 2011, Cairo, Egypt |
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Three years ago, ERF made it its business to tackle issues surrounding inequality in the Arab world, both in terms of inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunity. A serious effort has been made to collect and harmonize household survey data for as many countries in the region as possible and over as many years also as possible. By design, this event is a regional conference aiming at disseminating the findings of several papers on different angles of inequality. The conference is also intended to be a platform for interaction not only among researchers but also between researchers and policy makers, the media and other stakeholders.
Various research projects were initiated, engaging researchers from the region and abroad. This regional conference is intended to share the findings of this work with a wide audience. Not only does the coverage of the conference span measurements of inequality, but also the policies that may be used to ameliorate its intensity without penalizing hard work.
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