This is a country case study on Egypt undertaken as an input to an Independent Evaluation Group study of the World Bank's support for community-based development (CBD) and community-driven development (CDD) efforts. It is predominantly a desk study but involved also a field visit to the Matrouh...

The study argues that Egypt has only some of the characteristics of a so-called ‘anchor country’: In particular, it plays an important role for the long-term stability of the Middle East and North Africa as developments in Egypt have a high symbolic significance for all countries in the...