Tarik Yousef
Tarik Yousef is dean of the Dubai School of Government and is a nonresident senior fellow at the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings. Yousef specializes in development economics and economic history with a particular focus on the Middle East. He has held the positions of associate professor of Economics in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and Sheikh Al Sabah chair in Arab Studies at Georgetown's Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. Yousef received his Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University. His current research interests include the structure and dynamics of labor markets, the political economy of policy reform, and development policies in oil-exporting countries. He most recently co-edited Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East (Brookings Press, 2009) with Navtej Dhillon.
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Middle East Youth Initiative Publications:
Generation in Waiting: The Unfulfilled Promise of Young People in the Middle East
Navtej Dhillon and Tarik Yousef, editors, Brookings Institution Press, October 2009
Missed by the Boom, Hurt by the Bust: Making Markets Work for Young People in the Middle East
Navtej Dhillon, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani, Paul Dyer, Tarik Yousef, Amina Fahmy and Mary Kraetsch, May 2009
"Pursuing a Positive Agenda for the Middle East" in
Top 10 Global Economic Challenges Facing America's 44th President
Navtej Dhillon, Djavad Salehi-Isfahani and Tarik Yousef, October 2008
Inclusion: Meeting the 100 Million Youth Challenge
Navtej Dhillon and Tarik Yousef, December 2007
Selected Additional Publications:
The Logic of Authoritarian Bargains
Raj Desai, Anders Olofsgård and Tarik Yousef; in Economics and Politics 21, March 2009
The Tyranny of Demography: Exploring the Fertility Transition in the Middle East and North Africa
Paul Dyer and Tarik Yousef, November 2008
The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2007
Margareta Drzeniek Hanouz, Sherif El Diwany and Tarik Yousef, April 2007
"Will the Current Oil Boom Solve the Employment Crisis in the Middle East?"
Paul Dyer and Tarik Yousef; in Hanouz, Diwany and Yousef,The Arab World Competitiveness Report 2007, April 2007
Recent Events:
Adaptation and Innovation in the Middle East
Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, 3-4 May 2010
Social Entrepreneurship in the Middle East: Advancing Youth Innovation and Development through Better Policies and Practices
Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings, Washington, D.C., 28 April 2010
In the Media:
After the Arab Awakening: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Arab World
Dubai Debates, 31 May 2011
The possible economic effects of Obama's Middle East speech
NPR, 19 May 2011
For Arab Youth, Dreams May Be Deferred
NPR, 25 March 2011
Mideast 'baby boomers': Shock troops of protests
MSNBC, 1 March 2011
Gaddafi vows to crush protesters
Aljazeera, 26 February 2011
Arab nations lag behind rest of world economically, despite oil and natural gas
The Washington Post, 23 February 2011
Egyptens økonomi kommer stærkt igen (in Danish) - Egypt's Economy is Strong Again (in English)
Ugebrevet A4, 14 February 2011
Egypt's Youth in Revolt
The Takeaway, 9 February 2011
High Food Prices and Unemployment Fuel Uprisings in the Middle East
The Takeaway, 4 February 2011
Empty Pockets Stoked Discontent In Egypt, Tunisia
NPR, 1 February 2011
The Arab World's Youth Army
Foreign Policy, 27 January 2011
Tunisia's Dangerous Job Shortage
Business Week, 20 January 2011
Recent Commentary:
Is the Arab Authoritarian Bargain Collapsing?
Tarik Yousef, Raj Desai, and Anders Olofsgård, Brookings, 9 February 2011
Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship: From Words to Action in the Middle East and Muslim World
Tarik Yousef, BBC World News, 26 April 2010
Dubai: Back to Business As Usual?
Tarik Yousef, Al Jazeera English, 15 December 2009
The Middle East and the New Global Economy: Economic Recovery and a New Government in Lebanon
Jad Chaaban with Tarik Yousef, 13 November 2009
The Middle East and the New Global Economy: Revisiting Egypt in the Wake of the Downturn
Ragui Assaad with Tarik Yousef, 22 September 2009
President Obama’s Speech: An Appraisal from the Middle East
Tarik Yousef, BBC Arabic, 12 February 2009
Middle East’s Economic Paradox: Lost in the Wash
Navtej Dhillon, Jad Chaaban and Tarik Yousef, 27 June 2008
