The study focuses on the period 2004-09 during which Egypt experienced food crisis. The political economy context on …, agricultural, and economic policies in Egypt together with the structural aspects of the food subsidy policies are discussed and … crisis ; Egypt …

. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and … and decline in the size of the middle class since 2005 indicates that the growth process in Egypt was anti-poor and anti …

for Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. We find growing trends of vulnerable employment, particularly for youth cohorts …. Especially in Egypt and Tunisia, children of poorer and lesseducated parents start out in vulnerable jobs and are unlikely to …

methods to Egypt in 2013. Recentered Influence Function (RIF) regressions focusing on the poor correspond to the most …

attrition of communicating with participants. Specifically, we study the impact of sending topically relevant information on job … market conditions via SMS at the start of each survey round. Testing various information treatments, which differ in their …

Does information dissemination among beneficiaries of welfare programmes mitigate their implementation failures? We … was found for deprived communities. The findings lay a platform for an innovative information campaign that can be used by …

providing information on wages and unemployment reduces the time that university graduate job-seekers take to become employed …, with different levels of efficacy depending on the type of information provided. This relatively low-cost mechanism can …

enterprises' disaster preparedness. The second step includes an experiment providing enterprises with information about six … specific and easy-to-implement measures of disaster preparedness. This experiment aims to understand if better information … associated with the disaster preparedness of enterprises. Second, providing information about disaster preparedness measures …