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Amirah El-Haddad
German Institute of Development and Sustainability (IDOS)
Amirah El-Haddad is a senior economist at the German Development Institute (IDOS) and Professor of Economics at the Faculty of Economics and Political Sciences (FEPS), Cairo University. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Maryland at College Park (2005), during which time she also worked for the World Bank. She is a Research Fellow of the Economic Research Forum and serves on the board of several organizations. El-Haddad specializes in industrial organization, industrial policy, wage inequality, and the political economy of the Arab World in general and of Egypt in particular. She has published on firm behavior, dispute resolution in the textiles and clothing industry, and gender wage discrimination. She recently published on the Social Contract in World Development, on the link between informality and inequality in Applied Economics, and on the welfare effects of institutional and regulatory reform in public utilities (especially in telecoms) in the Journal of Development Effectiveness and Utilities Policy. In 2012-2014 she was Visiting Professor at the departments of Economics and Public Policy and Administration at the American University in Cairo. El-Haddad was visiting scholar at AYSPS, Georgia State University, the USA in 2011 and has given a series of lectures at Stanford University, the USA in 2015.
MORE ABOUT AMIRAH EL-HADDAD >2023
Amirah El-Haddad and Chahir Zakib
Storm survivors: Evidence from firms in times of pandemic
The COVID-19 outbreak has had severe economic consequences across the globe. The crisis emanating from the pandemic has caused demand and supply side shocks, more far reaching than any crisis in living memory. We use a new data set from the 2020/21 Egyptian Industrial Firm Behavior Survey to examine...
Publication / Scientific paper
2023
Amirah El-Haddad
Political Patronage and Economic Opportunity: Vertical Integration in Egyptian Textiles and Clothing
Utilizing an original data set, this paper demonstrates how protectionist industrial policy during the period of hybrid liberalization has shaped the organizational structure of clothing firms in Egypt. It investigates determinants of vertical integration of clothing firms into fabric production. Hi...
Publication / Scientific paper
2023
Amirah El-Haddad and Chahir Zaki
Vulnerability and resilience: crisis transmission channels for GVCs in COVID times
Firms that are part of GVCs are better protected from the transmission channels for the negative effects of COVID-19. They also show greater resilience and so better performance. There are nuances in the results depending on whether GVC affiliation is defined in a moderately lax or strict way. The r...