countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable … computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and Ukraine which are used to simulate direct and indirect impacts of the food … price surge and various policy options on the performance of the main macroeconomic indicators as well as on poverty …

) and Egypt had different success rates during the period from 1971 and 2009. The three countries are moderate Islamic … views of economic and social development with emphasis on the recent Arab spring and in particular Egypt's case. Egypt …. Egypt's case highlights the importance of regarding development as a multidimensional process involving social and economic …

devastating consequences on the household economic status that would push them into extreme poverty. Using nationally … representative surveys from three Arab countries, namely, Egypt, Jordan, and Palestine, this paper examines the incidence, intensity … and distribution of catastrophic health payments, and assesses the poverty impact of out-of-pocket health payments (OOP …

War II but continues to resonate in countries where poverty is widespread and the Church has grown. This paper explores 1 …), Egypt (Mahfouz), and Brazil (Lispector). …

literature by examining the phasing out of energy subsidies in Egypt under alternative economic scenarios. In particular, we … consider Egypt's short- and long-term economic adjustment under different assumptions on labor market flexibility, spending …

The interdependencies of health, education and poverty that are common knowledge to individuals are also present at the … research but based on the Demographic Health Surveys (DHS) of Egypt, Morocco and Turkey. The results attained through …

countries. In Egypt and some other countries it has put food subsidy schemes to the test. This paper develops two comparable … computable general equilibrium models for Egypt and Ukraine which are used to simulate direct and indirect impacts of the food … price surge and various policy options on the performance of the main macroeconomic indicators as well as on poverty …

index of 22.9 percent, which is slightly higher in rural areas. The paper shows that in Egypt, poverty is highly growth …Using consumption/expenditure based poverty lines, the 1995/6 estimated poverty measures indicate an overall headcount … elastic, and thus poverty reduction will improve with higher rates of growth provided the growth process does not lead to an …