Tackling poverty in Egypt is a challenging task, since poverty is highly complex and dynamic and cuts across different disciplines. Dealing with such real-world problems requires a comprehensive awareness of their distinctive characteristics, in order to avoid falling into the trap of...

Aus der Kooperation der Hans-Böckler-Stiftung mit dem israelischen Marco Center for Political Economics ist ein "Länderbericht Ägypten" hervorgegangen. Er befasst sich mit Armut und Einkommensverteilung, Bildung und Arbeitsmarkt, Emigration, den Arbeitsbeziehungen und Handelsabkommen.

This study assesses the redistributive impact of fiscal policy -- including expenditures and taxation -- in the Arab Republic of Egypt. Using a broadly applied methodology, a fiscal incidence analysis is conducted using survey and government data for fiscal year 2015. Evidence shows that...

Social programmes for poverty alleviation involve eligibility rules and transfer rules that often proxy-means tests. We propose to specify the estimator in connection with the poverty alleviation problem. Three distinct stages emerge from the optimization analysis: the identification of the...