Source: 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...
Learn MoreSource: Brookings Institute Author(s): Shadi Hamid Original Link: https://www.brookings.edu/testimonies/rethinking-the-u-s-egypt-relationship-how-repression-is-undermining-egyptian-stability-and-what-the-united-states-can-do/ Editor’s Note: Shadi Hamid testifies for the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission on how repression in Egypt is undermining the country’s stability and what the United...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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.
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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...
Learn MoreSource: 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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