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Are politically connected firms more likely to evade taxes? This paper presents evidence suggesting firms owned by President Ben Ali and his family were more prone to evade import tariffs. During Ben Ali?s reign, evasion gaps, defined as the difference between the value of exports to Tunisia...
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Business and politicians' interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analyzed with a binary approach, i.e. either a firm is connected to a politician or not. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. This paper uses use a unique data set for seven economies that documents...
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-rival their competitors by lobbying for privileges instead of innovating. In the aggregate, these policy privileges reduce Egypt … activities. The analysis is based on novel establishment survey data from The Arab Republic of Egypt which provides information …
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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 …
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This study illustrates the mechanisms linking national saving and economic growth, with the purpose of understanding the possibilities and limits of a saving-based growth agenda in the context of the Egyptian economy. This is done through a simple theoretical model, calibrated to fit the...
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The paper analyzes the impact of the recent global crisis in the context of the previous two decades' growth and capital flows. Growth decomposition exercises show that Egyptian growth is driven mostly by capital accumulation. To estimate the share of labor in national income, the analysis...
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In the past half a century, Egypt has experienced remarkable progress in the provision of infrastructure in all areas … perspective, Egypt has achieved an infrastructure status that closely corresponds to what could be expected given its national … with the country?s goals of raising economic growth. Improving infrastructure in Egypt would require a combination of …
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Arab Republic of Egypt. The paper examines empirically the relationship between the development of the financial sector and … economic growth in Egypt between 1980 and 2016. It draws comparisons based on critical financial indicators between Egypt and … financial development, to assess the relationship between financial development and economic growth in Egypt, yields three …
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This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...
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largest recruitment in the past decade, due in part to the interplay of informal institutions such as political clientelism …
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