The study classified the Rural Development programs in Egypt into four eras the era of rural reform policies before 1973, The era of rural development policies associated with liberalization of the Egyptian Economy (1973-1993) and included the establishing of “the Village Development and...

The study presents an analytical profile for the performance and policies of the agro‐food sector in the Egyptian economy and rural society, the agro‐food industry, the agro‐food production and consumption, the agricultural sector Structure and policies. In addition, the study concerned...

This synthesized report aims at providing a comparative view of agricultural sectors and policies in the MPC, based on the individual country reports and expanding the gathered information. It offers an overall depiction of the whole MPC region under investigation and a comparative perspective,...

This paper proposes a new model called Fourier-GARCH that is a modification of the popular GARCH(1,1). This modification allows for time-varying first and second moments via means of Flexible Fourier transforms. A nice feature of this model is its ability to capture both short and long run...