The previous decade in Egypt was marked by major internal and external shocks that have surely had severe implications … twofold. The first is to provide a detailed description of the methodology that has been applied in Egypt in estimating …

In 2015, a large share of Egypt's population was either poor (27.8 percent) or not poor but vulnerable to falling into … poverty (an additional 28.7percent); most of the poor and vulnerable lived in the governorates of Upper Egypt. Clearly the … country faces a challenge, but it also has the knowledge to craft solutions. Egypt's recent reforms have started to address …