Dr. Tamer Afifi

BACKGROUND

Tamer holds a PhD in Economics (International Trade) from the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany, where his thesis was titled ‘The Challenge of Implementing the Overlapping Regional Trade Agreements in Egypt’, an MA in Economics of Development from the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), The Hague, The Netherlands, where his thesis was titled ‘The Poor in the Egyptian Labor Market During an Adjustment Period: For Better or Worse?’ and a B.Sc. in Economics from the Faculty of Economics and Political Science, Cairo University, Egypt. He has been teaching and conducting economic research during his work as a Junior Lecturer at the Economics Department of the Faculty of Commerce, Sohag University, Egypt. Prior to his work at UNU-EHS, Tamer joined the Bonn International Graduate School (BIGS-DR) of the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany, as a Junior Researcher.


WORKING AREA AT UNU-EHS

Tamer serves as a Junior Academic Officer at UNU-EHS. He works in the area of Environmental Change and Forced Migration. As an Economist, his work focuses inter alia on economic aspects and modeling techniques in association with environmental migration.

PUBLICATIONS

Afifi, Tamer (2007) “The Applicability of the Egyptian Regional Trade Agreements in the Light of the Complex Rules of Origin”, Workshop on ‘The Nexus between African Issues of Concern in EPAs and the WTO Doha Development Debates’, Nordic Africa Institute-Uppsala, Sweden, September 7-8, 2007.

Bogardi, J, Renaud, F., Dun, O., Warner, K and Afifi, T. (2007) “Environmental Migration: the Unwanted Facet of the Mobility Society”, Migration and Development Conference, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, September 4-5, 2007.

Warner, K. and Afifi, T. (2007) “Social Vulnerability, Substitution, and the Impacts of Natural Disasters”, WIDER Conference on Fragile States – Fragile Groups, United Nations University, World Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER), Helsinki, Finland, June 15-16, 2007.

Afifi, Tamer (2006) “Institutional Reform: A Step Towards Free Trade in Egypt”, International Conference on Policy Modeling -EcoMod2006, Hong Kong, June 28-30, 2006.

Afifi, Tamer (2006) “Some Space for Success: Egypt as Part of an Eastern and Southern African Regional Trade Agreement”, Ninth Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, June 15-17, 2006.

Afifi, Tamer (2006) “An Institutional Gravity Analysis of a Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area from an Egyptian Perspective”, Economie Méditerranée Monde Arabe (EMMA), University of Galatasaray, Istanbul, Turkey, May 26-27, 2006.

Afifi, Tamer (2006) “Assessing the Dynamic Effects of the Egyptian Regional Trading Blocs”, Scottish Economic Society Annual Conference, Perth, Scotland, UK, April 24-26, 2006.

Afifi, Tamer (2006) 'The Impact of Institutional Quality on the Trade between Arabs', 5th International Conference of the Middle East Economic Association (MEEA), Sousse, Tunisia, March 10-12, 2006.

Afifi, Tamer (2005) “Ägypten in einer Größeren Arabischen Freihandelszone: Keine Zeit mehr für Träume”, a paper presented in the 12th Annual Congress of the German Middle East Studies Association for Contemporary Research and Documentation (DAVO). October 27th-29th, 2005.

Afifi, Tamer (2005) “Egypt in an Arab-African-Sandwich: Are GAFTA and COMESA to be implemented?”, EcoMod Network, Free University of Brussels, Belgium.

Afifi, Tamer (2001) “The Poor in the Egyptian Labour Market During an Adjustment Period: For Better or Worse?” Economic Research Forum for Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey, Working Paper 01/17.