VOL. XXXVI

NO. 37

14-JUNE-1993

GENERAL

Cairo Conference Sets Up Economic Research Forum

At a three-day conference organized by the World Bank and held in Cairo from4 to 7 June, some 80 economists from the Arab countries, Iran and Turkey haveset up a non-profit organization to be known as the Economic Research Forum (ERF).According to its charter, the new organization has two goals: (a) to encouragethe development of the economic research community in the Arab countries, Iranand Turkey; and (b) to...