Purpose - Although there are over 55,000 social enterprises operating in Egypt, the social entrepreneurship field is still failing to create the desired social change. This paper aims to explore the challenges faced by the field with a special focus on government related challenges as well as...

Purpose - The theoretical and empirical literature stipulated that exchange rate shocks do influence the domestic price of imports. Hence, this paper aims to investigate the underlying relationship between the exchange rate and prices known as the exchange rate pass-through....

Purpose - The purpose of this research is to explore the dynamics of using strategic human resource management (SHRM) practices in the public sector. More specifically, this paper tries to point out some main aspects of SHRM, which strongly influence the decision of employees to stay. The...

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically examine the impact of financial development on poverty reduction in Egypt. The paper also investigates whether financial development affects poverty via gross domestic product (GDP) growth. Design/methodology/approach - This study uses the...

Purpose - This paper aims to shed light on the Egyptian socio-economic and political conditions seven years post the 2011 revolution. Design/methodology/approach - The authors depended on secondary data and information gathered from scholars and from domestic and international institutions as...

Purpose - This paper aims to tackle an important question related to women's economic empowerment in highly patriarchal societies like Egypt. The paper discusses individual, household, wealth and location factors determining women empowerment, as measured by two dimensions: decision-making power...

Purpose - This paper aims to scrutinize and analyze the continuity and change in US foreign policy toward the Gulf region, with a comparison between the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations. Also, it explores the nature of the changes in US foreign policy toward the Gulf region to...

Purpose - This paper aims to analyze the determinants on job satisfaction in the Egyptian labor market, using Egypt's Labor Market Panel Survey (ELMPS), the wave of 2012. Design/methodology/approach - Several determinants are analyzed including the wage level, the paid and sick leaves, the...

Purpose - This paper aims to show the aligned development that took place in public administration and public financial management toward serving public values. By analyzing the mode of institutions' interaction, the paper attempts to pinpoint the changing trends in budget institutions in Egypt,...

Purpose - This paper aims to estimate a New Keynesian small open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium (DSGE) model for Egypt using Bayesian techniques and data for the period FY2004/2005:Q1-FY2015/2016:Q4 to assess monetary and fiscal policy interactions and their impact on economic...