Shireen AlAzzawi, Vladimir Hlasny - UNU-WIDER, 2020 - Helsinki, Finland
Youths in the Middle East and North Africa face the highest unemployment rates in the world. Those who are employed are pushed to accept informal sector jobs that are insecure, unsafe, and lack non-wage benefits. Precarious employment is pervasive among lower socio-economic groups, leading to the...
Vladimir Hlasny, Shireen AlAzzawi - UNU-WIDER, 2018 - Helsinki, Finland
This study examines the effects of cross-border return migration on intertemporal and intergenerational transmission of socio-economic status across six new harmonized surveys from three Arab countries: Egypt (1998, 2006, 2012), Jordan (2010, 2016) and Tunisia (2014). We link individuals’...
– An application to Egypt at the dawn of the XXIst century
Christophe Muller - UNU-WIDER, 2016 - Helsinki, Finland
Social programmes for poverty alleviation involve eligibility rules and transfer rules that often proxy-means tests. We propose to specify the estimator in connection with the poverty alleviation problem.
Three distinct stages emerge from the optimization analysis: the identification of the...
Ragui Assaad, Caroline Krafft - Oxford University Press, 2015 - Oxford, United Kingdom
From the book: Oxford Handbook of Africa and Economics, Vol. 2.
Marriage is the single most important contractual arrangement youth in North Africa undertake as they navigate their transition to adulthood. Despite its importance in shaping subsequent socioeconomic trajectories, there has been...
The Egyptian food system has been affected by both global food markets and domestic factors. During the recent global food price crisis, an estimated 30–40 percent of the price fluctuations in the global food market were transmitted to Egypt’s food market. Domestically, government...
Khalid Abu-Ismail, Niranjan Sarang - UNU-WIDER, 2015 - Helsinki, Finland
The degree of choice households have over their consumption expenditure is critical in deciding their economic class. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and assess their well-being in the period 1995-2011. Our...
Tony Addison - UNU-WIDER, 2012 - Helsinki, Finland
Tony Addison
This month saw the visit of Kaushik Basu, the World Bank’s new Chief Economist and Senior Vice President for Development Economics, to talk about the global crisis and the impact on emerging economies at a UNU-WIDER seminar. You can see a video interview with Kaushik...
Ahmed Farouk Ghoneim - UNU-WIDER, 2012 - Helsinki, Finland
The study focuses on the period 2004–09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on how the government responded to the crisis is analysed while pinpointing to what extent there was a pass-through effect from international to domestic prices. The complexity of...
Barry McCormick, Jackline Wahba - UNU-WIDER, 2004 - Helsinki, Finland
This paper explores entrepreneurship amongst return migrants, how their business locations and characteristics differ from other businesses, and the implications for rural-urban inequality. First, we examine, amongst returnees, the determinants of investment in a project/enterprise. Second, we...
Ravi Kanbur, Anthony J. Venables - Journal of African Economies, 2003 - Oxford, UK
Many developing and transition countries have considerable regional variation in average household income, poverty, and in health and educational status. National human development indicators can therefore mislead policy-makers when large regional disparities exist. This project will investigate...
Mohammed Omran - UNU-WIDER, 2002 - Helsinki, Finland
Late 1990, Egypt witnessed major and radical changes in all areas of its national life—political, legal, economic and social—as a reflection of implementing an economic reform programme in order to achieve progress in its economic indicators. This paper aims to examine the extent to...
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