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Tarik Yousef
Published in 2005
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Tarik Yousef continued his active schedule of research, lecturing and policy advising on development issues in the Arab world. Recent conference presentations and speeches include the Arab Competitiveness Summit
Organized by the World Economic Forum in Doha on April 1; Roundtable on Development in Yemen held in Sana’a on April 9; Annual Conference of the Center for Islam and Democracy in Washington on April 23; Youth Summit in Dubai on May 16; World Economic Forum Meetings in Amman on May 21; the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics in Amsterdam on May 23; NATO Parliamentary Assembly in Slovenia on May 28; World Affairs Council Summer Institute in Washington on June 20; and a Congressional Briefingon Democracy and Growth in the Middle East on July 18. As part of his work with the UN Millennium Project, he traveled to Sana’a on July 1-2 with the project’s director Dr. Jeffrey Sachs to provide input on the country’s Third Five-Year Development Plan. Dr. Yousef’s most recent publications include “Structural Reforms, the Investment Climate and Private Sector Development in the Arab World.” In A. Lopez-Claros, ed., The Arab Competitiveness Report (Switzerland: Palgrave, 2005); “Inflation and Inequality: Does Political Structure Matter?” in Economics Letters (May 2005); and “State-Society Relations and Labor Markets in the Gulf Economies,” forthcoming in the Journal of Social Affairs. Dr. Yousef was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Independent Task Force that produced the recent report In Support of Arab Democracy : Why and How.
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