Working Paper- Competitive Real Exchange Rates Are Good for the Poor: Evidence from Egyptian Household Surveys

Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ibrahim Elbadawi, Eman Refaat Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/competitive-real-exchange-rates-are-good-for-the-poor-evidence-from-egyptian-household-surveys/ Abstract: This paper develops a theoretical model that allows for assessing the poverty impact of the real exchange rate (RER), as an economy-wide relative price, in a fully...

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Working Paper- Catastrophic and Impoverishing Effects of Out-Of-Pocket Health Expenditure: New Evidence from Egypt

Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Ahmed Rashad, Mesbah Sharaf Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/catastrophic-and-impoverishing-effects-of-out-of-pocket-health-expenditure-new-evidence-from-egypt/ Abstract: Conventional poverty estimates do not take into account out-of-pocket (OOP) health payments. OOP health payments could cause financial catastrophe to households, which...

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Working Paper- Late-Life Living Arrangements and Intergenerational Ties in Egypt: Elderly Socio-Economic Conditions from Labor Market Surveys

Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Aurora Angeli Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/late-life-living-arrangements-and-intergenerational-ties-in-egypt-elderly-socio-economic-conditions-from-labor-market-surveys/ Abstract: The aim of this paper is to analyze dynamics in the late-life living arrangements and changes in socio-economic and health condition of the elderly in Egypt...

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Egypt’s Escalating Islamist Insurgency

Source: Centre For Security Studies Author(s): Mokhtar Awad, Mostafa Hashem Copyright: © 2015 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace Original Link: http://www.css.ethz.ch/en/services/digital-library/publications/publication.html/194523 Read the full paper by following the original link.

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Dateline Egypt: Roadmaps, Refinancing, and Regional Roles

Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Paul Salem Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/dateline-egypt-roadmaps-refinancing-and-regional-roles In the past ten days Egypt held a first round of parliamentary elections, announced renewed loan talks with the IMF, experienced new clashes with militants in the Sinai, and joined multinational talks to end the war in Syria. These headlines...

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One Year of the Islamic State in the Sinai Peninsula

Source: The Institute For National Security Studies Author(s): Zack Gold Original Link: http://www.inss.org.il/publication/one-year-of-the-islamic-state-in-the-sinai-peninsula/ Sinai militancy changed over 2015, following the decision of the peninsula’s main violent jihadi group – Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis – to pledge allegiance to the Islamic State organization and become Wilayat Sinai. The...

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Interest and Intrigue in Egypt’s Parliamentary Elections

Source: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): H. A. Hellyer Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/interest-and-intrigue-egypts-parliamentary-elections Egyptians voted this week for the eighth time in four years—ten if you count runoffs. The most blatant characteristic this time appears to be rather unedifying: An abundant lack of interest in the formal exercise of the democratic process...

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Egypt’s Escalating Islamist Insurgency

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Mokhtar Awad, Mostafa Hashem Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/2015/10/21/egypt-s-escalating-islamist-insurgency-pub-61683 Snapshot: Egypt is facing what is shaping up to be the deadliest and most complex insurgency in its modern history. The military-backed ouster of Mohamed Morsi from the presidency in July 2013 fragmented Egypt’s Islamist landscape...

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The State of Alliances in Egypt’s Elections

Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Chritstopher J. Cox Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/61688 Elections for 60 of the bloc-list and 226 of the independent seats in Egypt’s new 596-seat unicameral parliament concluded on October 19. As it stands, 448 seats will be elected through independent candidate lists, another 120 seats will be elected through closed bloc or party...

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Egypt’s Elections Give Sisi Chance to Tighten Grip

Source: International Peace Institute Author(s): Andre Colling Original Link: https://theglobalobservatory.org/2015/10/egypt-sisi-morsi-elections-muslim-brotherhood/ Two years after the military ousted the Muslim Brotherhood-dominated government of President Mohammed Morsi, and nearly three years since the dissolution of the country’s parliament, Egypt is scheduled to hold a new round of...

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Egypt: The New Puritans

Source: Wilson Centre Author(s): Khalil al Anani, Garrett Nada Original Link: https://www.wilsoncenter.org/article/egypt-the-new-puritans Egypt’s Salafi Nour Party is the only Islamist party that will compete in the upcoming parliamentary elections on October 18 and 19. The party supported Egypt’s military during their 2013 crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood, which has since...

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Taking On Egypt’s Big Bureaucracy

Source: Middle East Institute Author(s): Maria Golia Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/taking-egypt%E2%80%99s-big-bureaucracy Since the 1990s, the need for streamlined procedures to facilitate business, trade and investment has grown to crisis proportions in Egypt. But the political will to deliver administrative reform was always lacking, not least because it would involve lay-offs...

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