Ragui Assaad
Ragui Assaad is a nonresident senior fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at the Brookings Institution and professor of planning and public affairs at the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. Ragui previously served as the regional director for West Asia and North Africa at the Population Council. His expertise is in the areas of international economic development; labor market analysis; politics and economics of the Middle East and North Africa; urban planning; poverty in developing countries; quantitative methods; and women's work in developing countries.
Ragui received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from Cornell University and his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering and B.Sc. in Physics from Stanford University.
Recent Commentary:
The Paradox of Employment: The Reality Behind Youth Labor Market Statistics in Egypt and the United States
Ragui Assaad and Samantha Constant, March 9, 2010
The Middle East and the New Global Economy: Revisiting Egypt in the Wake of the Downturn
Ragui Assaad with Tarik Yousef, September 22, 2009
Global Economic Crisis: Short and Long-term Prospects for Egypt
Ragui Assaad with Navtej Dhillon, October 29, 2008
Middle East Youth Initiative Publications:
Youth Exclusion in Yemen: Tackling the Twin Deficits of Human Development and Natural Resources
Ragui Assaad, Ghada Barsoum, Emily Cupito and Daniel Egel, November 2009
Did Housing Policy Reforms Curb the Delay in Marriage Among Young Men in Egypt?
Ragui Assaad and Mohamed Ramadan, November 2008
Youth Exclusion in Egypt: In Search of "Second Chances"
Ragui Assaad and Ghada Barsoum, December 2007
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