Experts – Page 144 – Middle East Policy Platform

Regional Agreements and Authoritarian Measures in Egypt

2017 Democracy and Politics Egypt Foreign Relations Mohamad Adam Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

June 02, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Mohamad Adam Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/regional-agreements-and-authoritarian-measures-in-egypt/ Last Monday, a picture was taken in Saudi Arabia of a glowing globe controlled by the six hands of the King Salman of Saudi Arabia, President Donald Trump of the United States, and President Abdel-Fattah El Sisi of...

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Working Paper- Do Workers’ Remittances promote Consumption Stability in Egypt?

2017 Aliaa Abdallah Chahir Zaki Economy Omneia Helmy Paper The Egyptian Center For Economic Studies

June 01, 2017 05:56 am

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Source: The Egyptian Center For Economic Studies Author(s): Omneia Helmy, Chahir Zaki, Aliaa Abdallah Original Link: http://www.eces.org.eg/Publication.aspx?Id=625&Type=10 Abstract: This paper examines cyclical characteristics of remittances and explores their counterbalancing and consumption-smoothing potential. First, it uses quarterly data to better reflect the shortterm dynamics of...

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Working Paper- Revisiting the Impact of Trade Openness on Informal and Irregular Employment in Egypt

2017 Chahir Zaki Economic Research Forum Economy Mélika Ben Salem Paper

June 01, 2017 05:55 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Mélika Ben Salem, Chahir Zaki Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/revisiting-the-impact-of-trade-openness-on-informal-and-irregular-employment-in-egypt/ Abstract: This paper examines the impact of trade openness on job quality through the evolution of the shares of informal and irregular employment in total employment. In fact, Egypt has...

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Tightening the Noose on Egypt’s Civil Society

2017 Amy Austin Holmes Carnegie Civil Society Paper

June 01, 2017 05:52 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Amy Austin Holmes Original Link: http://carnegieendowment.org/sada/70146 The massacre on May 26 of Coptic Christians in Minya by Islamic State-affiliated gunmen was the fourth such incident in six months, following several attacks on churches in Cairo, Alexandria, and Tanta. Instead of addressing glaring security deficits—and protecting Copts, who have...

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Working Paper- The Political Economy of A Sector in Crisis: Industrial Policy and Political Connections in the Egyptian Automotive Industry

2017 Amirah El-Haddad Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Jeremy Hodge Nizar Manek Paper

June 01, 2017 03:44 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Amirah El-Haddad, Jeremy Hodge, Nizar Manek Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/the-political-economy-of-a-sector-in-crisis-industrial-policy-and-political-connections-in-the-egyptian-automotive-industry/ Abstract: The Egyptian automotive industry developed under the country’s policy of import substitution industrialization (ISI). It mainly...

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The Battle Over Al-Azhar

2017 Carnegie Egypt Judicial Affairs Mariam Ghanem Nathan J. Brown Paper

May 31, 2017 03:39 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown, Mariam Ghanem Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/70103 Over the past month, debate in Egypt has centered around a legislative initiative designed to reorganize the way the country’s religious establishment is governed. At first glance, the initiative appeared designed to place the top leadership of Al-Azhar, the sprawling...

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A Monetary Theory of Everything: “Printing” New Money and Egypt’s Economic Ills

2017 Economy Osama Diab Paper The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy

May 30, 2017 05:56 am

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Source: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Osama Diab Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/a-monetary-theory-of-everything-printing-new-money-and-egypts-economic-ills/ Last week, the Central Bank of Egypt (CBE) unexpectedly decided to raise interest rates by two percentage points to mitigate spiraling inflation. While academic economists and observers of financial...

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Egypt Must Strengthen Budget Institutions to Curb Mounting Budget Deficit

2017 Economic Research Forum Economy Egypt Mohamed Zaky Paper

May 30, 2017 03:44 am

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Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Mohamed Zaky Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/egypt-must-strengthen-budget-institutions-to-curb-mounting-budget-deficit/ Abstract: • Since the January 2011 popular revolution, the budget deficit in Egypt has worsened. • A new strategy announced by the government to contain the budget deficit and control public debt includes many measures...

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The Politics of Egyptian Fine Art: Giving a Voice to the People

2017 Culture, Education and Development Egypt Paper Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi The Century Foundation

May 16, 2017 03:37 am

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Source: The Century Foundation Author(s): Sultan Sooud Al Qassemi Original Link: https://tcf.org/content/report/politics-egyptian-fine-art/ Snapshot: Egyptian artists have a long history of political engagement. Even in the mid-twentieth century, when they mostly relied on state funding, they made critiques of the ruling regimes, and created one of the few spaces where independent political...

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The IMF is neither the problem nor the solution

2017 Amr Adly Economy Egypt Foreign Relations Madamasr Paper

May 11, 2017 03:38 am

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Source: Madamasr Author(s): Amr Adly Original Link: https://www.madamasr.com/en/2017/05/11/opinion/u/the-imf-is-neither-the-problem-nor-the-solution/ The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank were established post-Second World War, in 1944, to prevent a recurrence of the Great Depression and establish balances in the international economic system. The IMF aimed to remedy deficits in...

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Running On Empty

2017 Carnegie Egypt Michael Young Paper Security and Counter-Terrorism Sinai

May 07, 2017 03:36 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Michael Young Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/69854 Mohannad Sabry is an Egyptian journalist and author who lived in Cairo until 2015, before he left in self-imposed exile after facing mounting threats. In 2011 he was named a finalist for the Livingston Award for International Reporting, and he was nominated for an Emmy Award

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A Dispensable Dictator?

2017 Carnegie Democracy and Politics Egypt Nathan J. Brown Paper

May 05, 2017 03:46 am

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Source: Carnegie Endowment Author(s): Nathan J. Brown Original Link: http://carnegie-mec.org/diwan/68791 Since July 2013, Egyptian politics has seemed grimly predictable, with authoritarianism reestablishing itself firmly in the country, challenged only at the margins, or through terrorism and insurgency. Most of the lively politics of the immediate post-2011 period has all but ceased. Indeed...

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