Source: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Maia Sieverding Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/intergenerational-mobility-in-Womens-employment-outcomes-in-egypt/ Abstract: The importance of mothers’ educational and occupational attainments for understanding the social mobility of their children, and particularly daughters, has been increasingly emphasized as female labor force...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Anda David, Joachim Jarreau Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/short-and-long-term-impacts-of-emigration-on-origin-households-the-case-of-egypt/ Abstract: This paper studies the impacts of emigration on income inequality and wealth in Egypt. Using three waves of a longitudinal survey covering the 1998-2012 period, we first study the impact...
Learn MoreSource: Economic Research Forum Author(s): Aysit Tansel, Halil Ibrahim Keskin, Zeynel Abidin Ozdemir Original Link: http://erf.org.eg/publications/is-there-an-informal-employment-wage-penalty-in-egypt/ Abstract: This paper considers the private sector wage earners in Egypt and examines their wage distribution during 1998-2012 using the Egyptian Labor Market Panel Survey. We first estimate...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Louise Sarant Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/at/food-needs-drive-cairo-residents-rooftops On the rooftop of a three-story brick building tucked inside a dusty alley of ‘Izbat al-Nasr, a poor and informal neighborhood southeast of Cairo, Leila Hussein crouches, tending to the basil and rocket she grows. The incessant cackling of geese...
Learn MoreSource: Cairo Institute For Human Rights Studies Author(s): Ragab Saad Original Link: http://www.cihrs.org/?p=17642&lang=en Introduction: Since the Muslim Brotherhood rule was toppled in July 2013, the regime of President Abd al-Fattah al-Sisi has strived to consolidate his one-man rule; he painted the political opposition and civil society as traitors and foreign agents and exploited the...
Learn MoreSource: Middle East Institute Author(s): Zeinab Abul-Magd Original Link: http://www.mei.edu/content/map/egypt%E2%80%99s-Military-business-need-change In today’s Egypt, you cannot miss it: the heavy presence of the military institution in the economy. The Egyptian military owns business enterprises that are in almost every sector and produce an extremely wide area of services and goods...
Learn MoreSource: Finnish Institute Of International Affairs (Fiia) Author(s): Wolfgang Mühlberger Original Link: https://www.fiia.fi/en/publication/egypts-democratic-window-dressing The first round of parliamentary elections in October turned out to be symptomatic of a derailed democratic transition in Egypt. Mainly endorsing the return of authoritarian governance structures, they epitomize the...
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): Gregory Aftandilian Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/egypt-needs-a-comprehensive-approach-to-terrorism/ Egypt faces a serious threat from terrorist groups, not only in the Sinai Peninsula but also in other parts of the country. Unfortunately, the government’s counter-terrorism campaign over the past several years has not...
Learn MoreSource: Chatham House Author(s): Jane Kinninmont Original Link: https://www.chathamhouse.org/expert/comment/metrojet-incident-spotlights-egypt-s-Security-struggles The suspicion that a bomb caused a Russian passenger plane to crash over Sinai casts an international spotlight on the security problems that Egyptians have already been facing – and the limitations of the highly militarized state’s...
Learn MoreSource: Council On Foreign Relations Author(s): Steven A. Cook Original Link: https://www.cfr.org/blog/egypt-unknown The Egyptian state is weak. The country’s leaders are in a state of either panic or perpetual confusion. No one is in control. As in the darkest, most contested days of former President Mohammed Morsi’s tenure, Egypt’s failure once again seems plausible. Despite
Learn MoreSource: The Tahrir Institute For Middle East Policy Author(s): May El-Sadany Original Link: https://timep.org/commentary/forced-disappearances-spike-in-egypt-2/ On January 13, 2014, Ashraf Shahata, originally trained as a lawyer, went to the private school that he had helped establish in Kerdasa, Giza. He parked his car, went inside to meet one of his partners, and was last seen walking out...
Learn MoreSource: German Development Institute Author(s): Amirah El-Haddad Original Link: https://www.die-gdi.de/en/others-publications/article/the-causal-chain-of-market-based-reform-in-egyptian-voice-telecommunication/ Snapshot: Utility reform swept the developing world in the 1980s and 1990s. This case study of the Egyptian telecoms sector shows that regulatory reform and liberalization have created...
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