. Applying our measure to Egyptian household budget surveys, we estimate the population size of the middle class in Egypt and … people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates … and decline in the size of the middle class since 2005 indicates that the growth process in Egypt was anti-poor and anti …

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 …

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 …-values of living standards plugged into the poverty minimization programme to obtain the transfer amounts. We apply these …

(EIB). Geographically it covers the MEDA-8 countries (Algeria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, WB&GS) and …

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 …