Egypt also led to a decrease in poverty, mostly from the flagship Tamween program. Poverty and inequality could be reduced … Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government … countries, Egypt's overall fiscal policy placed it in the median of the distribution of inequality reduction. Fiscal policies in …

conducted by Egypt?s national statistical agency, compares the changes in the static poverty profiles (based on growth incidence … initially non-poor households were exposed to poverty. As a matter of fact, only 45 percent of the population in Egypt remained …This paper presents a detailed picture of how sustained growth in Egypt over 2005-2008 affected different groups both …

equality and the empowerment of women. Yet, existing frameworks for women's agency measurement -- both disorganized and partial …

misleading for understanding the relationship between caste and gender, and for targeting anti-poverty programs …

The concept of empowerment is now widely used in several disciplines to characterize the states and social processes of … research by economists, primarily involving impact evaluation, has measured empowerment as women's influence over household … expenditures. This is a very narrow sliver of empowerment; not surprisingly, it is not well correlated with other economic or …