Tarik Yousef
Tarik Yousef is a nonresident senior fellow at the Wolfensohn Center for Development at Brookings and dean of the Dubai School of Government. 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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Recent Events:
Adaptation and Innovation in the Middle East
Dubai Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge, MA, May 3-4, 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., April 28, 2010
Recent Commentary:
Presidential Summit on Entrepreneurship: From Words to Action in the Middle East and Muslim World
Tarik Yousef, BBC World News, April 26, 2010
Dubai: Back to Business As Usual?
Tarik Yousef, Al Jazeera English, December 15, 2009
The Middle East and the New Global Economy: Economic Recovery and a New Government in Lebanon
Jad Chaaban with Tarik Yousef, November 13, 2009
The Middle East and the New Global Economy: Revisiting Egypt in the Wake of the Downturn
Ragui Assaad with Tarik Yousef, September 22, 2009
President Obama’s Speech: An Appraisal from the Middle East
Tarik Yousef, BBC Arabic, February 12, 2009
Middle East’s Economic Paradox: Lost in the Wash
Navtej Dhillon, Jad Chaaban and Tarik Yousef, June 27, 2008
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
