infrastructure has both flow and stock effects on private investment in Egypt, but only a stock effect in Jordan and Tunisia. But … East and North Africa: Egypt, Jordan, and Tunisia. The first part highlights various channels through which public … infrastructure may affect private investment. The second part describes our empirical framework, which is based on a VAR model that …

Investment growth in emerging market and developing economies has slowed sharply since 2010. This paper presents a … comprehensive analysis of the causes and implications of this slowdown and presents a menu of policy responses to improve investment …, declining foreign direct investment inflows, elevated private debt burdens, heightened political risk, and adverse spillovers …

In countries with limited access to finance, firms accumulate retained earnings to finance indivisible investment … projects. McKinnon (1973) illustrates that when cash is used as a primary store of value, inflation may discourage investment … and provides a simple calibration of the model that suggests sizable effects of inflation on investment. The mechanism is …

This paper assesses the impact of Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the most populous … country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Using panel data from the 2012 and 2018 rounds of the Egypt Labor Market …

The challenge of power sector reform in the Arab Republic of Egypt has long been dominated by extremely high subsidies …, accumulation of arrears from the sector, poorly-maintained physical capital, and cross-subsidies across customer classes. Egypt …. Egypt has been able to achieve universal access with more or less reliable power over the entire period, except when chronic …

Republic of Egypt. An appropriate measure of welfare also led to downward corrections in inequality in urban Egypt, while …

Like many emerging markets, the Arab Republic of Egypt is keen to promote distributed solar, defined here as systems … policy actions to unlock the distributed solar market for on-grid and off-grid applications, using Egypt as a case study. The … paper calculates the rate of return on investment for different distributed solar applications, identifies nonfinancial …

of private savings behavior in the Arab Republic of Egypt, and considers the effect of financial development. The … savings in Egypt follow the Life Cycle Model in the long term. Controlling for population growth, the analysis finds that the … maximizing private savings and financing growth in Egypt …

The Arab Republic of Egypt is yet to meet its exports potential, which has been historically hampered by several … export performance. This paper analyzes Egypt's exports along three dimensions that are key for export performance and future …) relatedness to globally traded products. The analysis suggests that Egypt continues to specialize in traditional areas of …